SCOTT ISLAND.
IN WILDERNESS OF ICE. Vancouver, December 12. A message from the Byrd Expedition says:—“We have confirmed the existence of 'Scott Island, which has been in doubt ever since Scott first discovered it. We nearly got lost in dangerous ice packs. We lost a haAVser and saw a Avhale caught. Now we are alongside the ice pack and are preparing to enter it.” 'The finding of Scott Island was a source of great gratification to Commander Byrd, as other ships reported passing over the spot where it was supposed to exist without seeing it. The island is the loneliest in the world, lost in ice and a Avilderness of troubled waters.
In dodging the ice the Eleanor Bolling broke aAvay from the City of New Yoijk. Both ships then made their way singly through ice packs. Navigation Avas difficult. They once found themselves between the main pack and an enormous piece of pack ice which Commander Byrd described as the worst lie had ever seen. Both ahiga Avere hurried out for to have been caught there Avould have been serious. Byrd slipped on the deck and Avas knocked out. He had been on duty continuously for two days. The attempt to take coal from the Bolling Avas abandoned owing to rough weather.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3884, 15 December 1928, Page 4
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