ELLSWORTH AGAIN.
Another Antarctic Voyage for Next Year. AUSTRALIA'S MYSTERY LAND. (Received 2 p.m.) NKW YORK, April 20. Mr. Lincoln Ellsworth, famous millionaire American aviator-explorer, is planning, according to a copyright dispatch from the North American Newspaper Alliance, a flight from F.nderby Laud to the Bay of Whales, Ross Sea, south of New Zealand—across an unknown area ostensibly rich in geologic and economic surprises.
His supply ship, Wyatt Earp. in which he travelled previously to the Antarctic, will again be fitted out in Norway and will load a new aeroplane in the United States. Mr. Ellsworth will join the ship at Capetown. He said the area was claimed by Australia by virtue of Sir Douglas Mawson's coastal discoveries. Asked whether it was worth risking his life for exploration, Mr. Ellsworth explained that exploration was his career, but' the Antarctic was land and land, wherever it was, was valuable.
"Who can say the day will not return when Antarctica will again become tropical and a continent emerge which will be the hope of the world?"
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 98, 27 April 1937, Page 7
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