IN ANTARCTICA

Hokitika Guardian, 19 February 1930, Page 6

IN ANTARCTICA

(By Russell Owen—Copyrighted 1930 by the New York Times Company, and St. Louis Post Dispatch. All rights, for publication reserved throughout the world. Wireless to New York Times.)

BYRD’S SHIP

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BAY OF WHALES, Feb. 17

The “City of New York” made more than one hundred miles yesterday in good water. All bauds worked continually in freeing the ship from the ice. Two hundred tons went overboard, the ship rising two feet in the water. Everything is in readiness for loading when the siiip ties up at the Bay of Whales.

WILKINS’ FLIGHTS

HAM PERK D IN ANT A RCTIO.

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LONDON, Feb. 17

Sir H. Wilkins, reporting from Deception Island, stated:—“The observations made during the three weeks of flights southward of Deception Island, complete our main reconnaisance work. We were hampered by cold, snow squalls and almost impossible flying conditions, but readied latitude seventy-three, longitude 101, whence we saw an apparently limitless sea of broken ice, heaving restlessly. Me have not had a single good flying day during tiie entire three weeks. When not in piercing snow squalls, wo were compelled by ,scud to fly under a low ceiling, finding an ice strewn sea where previously land was supposed to 'be. Scientific work was continued aboard the steamer Scoresby. Much valuable data and specimens were collected. The failure to communicate by wireless with the steamer Melville may have been due to intervening mountains. Attempts to communicate] with- Byrd were total failure. The return trip to Deception Island was the roughest we ever experienced. The crew and planes are now safe aboard the Henrikibsen.