EARLY WINTER ICE.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 48, 26 February 1929, Page 5

EARLY WINTER ICE.

CONDITIONS IN ANTARCTIC

CITY OF NEW YORK MOVE S OUT

Telermph.—Press Association.)

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from a radio message received :n Wellington yesterday from" Mr. R. G Bropny. second in command of the Byrd Antarctic expedition, wh) is a l»ar<! the Eleanor Boiling, now seven day? out from Tort Chalmers on her way to the Bay of Whales, winter conditions are setting in unusual!v earlv th>* year in the Antarctic. Mr. Brophy. whose message :s timed 10.3.3 p.m. Sunday, says:—"We have intercepted a messaee from the C'itr of New \ork. directed to the Nv.v York Times. ' saying that new :c- is :reez::i_: over the Bay of Whal's. and ha- driveL tae ship out. She reported that she was proceeding i:h great difficulty throuzh ice more than six inches thick last nig'nt. >he has 20 men on board. The balance have been put ashore for the winter period. arc proceeding under forced draugiit and with a tcwline to ner aid. I- " lVe tind ner c.ear we h~pe to prvoeed with tile Eleanor Buying to Discovery Inlet and - discharge carzo for Commander Byrd to pick ur> next spring."' , In ordinary time; it "is not usual f-r tae sea to treeze over near the j- e terrier until nearly the end of March. In 1912 the Terra Nova did not ieive Captain Scott's winter quarters in M .-Mur-io Sound until early in March, and she c.eared the ice pack on nor return to Lyttelton on March 21.