EXPLORERS RETURN
ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION.
GRAHAM LAND EXPLORATION.
FLIGHTS AND SLEDGE TRIPS.
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) Received August 12, 11.50 a.m. RUGBY, Aug. 11. After 21 years, the western Antarctic members of the British Graham Land expedition to-day reached Portsmouth in the auxiliary schooner Penola. It is tho first British national enterprise to winter in tho Antarctic for about 20 years. The members explored about a thousand miles of new territory, making reconnaissance flights in theii aeroplane, following these by sledge journeys, for which the expedition had taken about 90 Greenland dogs. Graham Land, it was found, was not a collection of islands, as was hitherto believed, but a definite part of the Antarctic continent. The Andes, one of the world’s biggest mountain ranges, has its southern extremity in Graham Land.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 216, 12 August 1937, Page 9
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