"AMAZING DISCOVERY."

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 292, 10 December 1929, Page 7

"AMAZING DISCOVERY."

Geological Find By Byrd's Party. CLIMBING MOUNTAINS. (Received 9.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, December 9. [By Mr. Russell Owen. Copyrighted 192S by the " New York Times " Company and the " St. Louis Post Dispatch." All rights for publication reserved throughout the world. Wireless to the " New York Times."] BAY OF WHALES, December 8. Dr. Larry Gould's geological party, in the Queen Maud Range, have -climbed part of the way up Mount Nansen to the west of the Axel Heiberg Glacier. The leader reports finds of tremendous interest. Gould's messages are as follow: — December 6:' The present camp which is west of Mount Betty on the Axel Heiberg Glacier is at 85 degrees 2 minutes south and 165 degrees 30 minutes west longitude. O'Brien, Thome and I started for Mount Betty to-day but a heavy fog came up and we had to return. We have established our mountain base here, and with better weather we shall start up the glacier to-morrow with a two weeks' supply in an attempt to reach the flat-lying rocks that gap Mount Nansen. December 7: We came up the west portion of the Axel Heiberg Glacier yesterday and. camped in a snowstorm on the north side of Mount Nansen. The rocks were very difficult to reach owing to crevasses on all the borders of the glacier, but we climbed 6500 feet up the flank of Mount Nansen to-day and found a series of rocks that. has told us" a geological story of such amazing interest as to make the whole trip worth the effort. We.have only started and have been in the clouds most of the time during the last three days. This greatly, interferes with our work.