RECORD JOURNEY.
ARCTIC ADVENTURE.
British Party's 1150-Mile Trip On Sledges.
GREENLAND EXPEDITION,
(British Official Wireless.)
(Received 12 noon.) . RUGBY, October 8. Lieutenant Martin Lindsay and his party of explorers, who carried out the longest self-supporting sledge journey in the history of Arctic exploration, have arrived at Aberdeen from Greenland. About 350 miles of h'itherto unknown territory have been mapped, and extensive additions have heen made to the knowledge of the Greenland ice cap. Three sledges travelled 1150 miles, west to east, across Greenland, over most difHcult country and in the face of frequent severe storms. Some 450 miles of the journey were made on continuous ice. . The party was picked up at Angmagssalik by the British trawler Jacinth, only four hours before the winter ice closed the harbour.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 239, 9 October 1934, Page 7
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