IN LOOSE ICE.
ANTARCTIC NEW YEAR. Byrd Seeking Entrance Through Pack. FLIGHT PREVENTED BY SNOW. (United P.A.-Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 10 a.m.) NEW YORK, January 2. A message received by wireless from the Byrd Antarctic Expedition aboard the Jacob Euppert is as follows :— At six o'clock on New Year's Eve Rear-Admiral Byrd ordered the Jacob Ruppert to proceed southward through the main Antarctic pack, and since then the vessel has struggled 18 miles through loose pack slush. The air is gloomy, the sky is overeast, and there is a feel of snow in the air. The noon position was 09.12 south, 110.42 west. All day yesterday a snow storm and thick pack ice stopped progress until Rear-Admiral Byrd, tired of waiting, ordered slow speed ahead, although visibility was limited to five miles. On Friday night the Jacob Ruppert gained her scheduled objective at the 120 th meridian, but the pack at present is not favourable for entrance.
Rear-Admiral Byrd ordered the ship to make for a large bay formed by a tongue of protruding ice, where he planned to make a reconnaissance flight for the purpose of locating from the air if possible a less formidable pack than could be seen from the ship's bridge. Snow started, however, making a takeoff too dangerous.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 2, 3 January 1934, Page 7
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