Radio in the Antarctic

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 28, 25 January 1929, Page 25

Radio in the Antarctic

WIRELESS is doing' more to conquer the vast: unknown wastes than is generally realised; it is bringing the desert and the pole nearer civilisation and is rendering less difficult and less arduous the task of the explorer and the colonist. A few years ago the polar regions were looked upon as a cemetery for the living-there. man went to bury himself for a long. and anxious period. Certainly the physica] conditions of these regions has not changed but man. in his conguest of Nature, has evoked a-means:-of subduing even these formidable. spaces-wireless.

MLL ATT THAI So Commander Byrd finds things "not so. bad after all," as evidenced by this quotation :-"Radio is one thing that at the moment impresses me. We are sitting snug and comfortable in our little four-man tent with the Eskimo dogs curled up outside. We have a temporary radto aerial up with a bamboo mast stuck in the snow. It is a wonderful thing that I can sit out here on this God-forsaken hunk of ice in a small tent giving’ instructions for operations to my shipmates. some of them 2700 miles away, and what a comforting thing it must be for those on the City of New York who, but for radio, would certainly be worried about us."