BRITISH SCIENTISTS IN ANTARCTIC
RADIO COMMUNICATION MADE LONDON, December 2._ The Antarctic relief ship, Jolm Biscoe, which is making a new effort to rescue the 11 British scientists marooned on Stonington Island, southwest of Graham Land, spoke to them by radio-telephone to-day, but their replies werp almost inaudible because of interference from big Russian and American radio stations. Some of the men have been at their post for more than two years. A Reuter correspondent aboard the John Biscoe says the first step in the- rescue operation will be the setting up of an air base at Deception Island.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AG19491203.2.45
Bibliographic details
Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 45, 3 December 1949, Page 5
Word Count
99BRITISH SCIENTISTS IN ANTARCTIC Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 45, 3 December 1949, Page 5
Using This Item
Ashburton Guardian Ltd is the copyright owner for the Ashburton Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Ashburton Guardian Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in