FIRST PACK ICE.
Byrd's Ship Steers South at
Half Speed.
HOPES FOR OPEN WATERS
NEW YORK, December 22,
A wireless message has been received from the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, on board the Jacob Ruppert, reporting as follows:—
Pressing effortlessly at half speed through the extensive ice fields the Jacob Ruppert at 4 p.m. was approximately 130 miles south of Captain Cook's farthest south along the 150 th meridian.
Ice extends in all directions, but on the horizon the sky's darker aspect promisesr open water to the southward. Rear-Admiral Byrd has instructed Cap--tain Gjertsen to "steer south along the 150 th meridian until the icc stops you."
The Jacob Ruppert will hold her course until the cemented pack or the ice barrier bars the way. According to tradition this approach to Antarctica is invested with the stormiest waters and is perhaps the most impenetrable pack, but through a fortunate quirk of nature the pack which halted Captain Cook and every explorer since has this season retreated far below its charted northern limits.
The Jacob Ruppert, after passing icebergs yesterday, encountered the first pack ice at 10 o'clock this morning.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 303, 23 December 1933, Page 9
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