ICE PACK TROUBLESOME
REPORT FROM WHALERS ELEANOR BOLING LOADING Press Association I DUNEDIN, Thursday. Owing to the severe condition of the ice pack in southern latitudes the departure of the Byrd Antarctic expedition supply ship Eleanor Boling, from Dunedin, for the Bay of Whales, has been postponed until Monday. Advice received in Dunedin today stated that the mother whaling ships had not yet succeeded in negotiating the ice pack. The Eleanor Boling Is now loading additional bunker coal. She will also carry 5,0001 b of fresh meat for transhipment to the whaling factory ship Kosmos when the two vessels meet in the Ross Sea. It is expected that tire Eleanor Boling will overtake the City of New York before she reaches the ice. At noou yesterday the City of New York, Byrd Antarctic expedition ship, was below latitude 56 south, or about 700 miles south-east of Otago Heads. The ship had then about 500 miles to cover before reaching the ice-belt. She left Port Chalmers on the morning of January 6 and will he towed through the ice pack by the Eleanor Boling.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 873, 17 January 1930, Page 16
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183ICE PACK TROUBLESOME Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 873, 17 January 1930, Page 16
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