POLAR FLIGHT.
AMUNDSEN'S VENTURE. PREPARATIONS COMPLETE. (BY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCUTION-COrYMOHT.) (ACSTRALIAH AHD Jf.Z CABLJ ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, April 27. A message from King's Bay, Spitzbergen, states that all preparations for the arrival of the airship Norge are complete. After a long period of northeasterly winds and severe frosts, there is now mild weather, fine, with sunshine, which has broken up the ice in King's Bay, so the ships are able to reach the quay. ' Captain Amundsen and Mr Lincoln Ellsworth are making long ski excursions from King's Bay. The aerodrome is ready, and the mooring mast will bo finished to-morrow. A cargo of hydrogen from the steamer Knuts Knaluren is nearly unloaded.
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18678, 29 April 1926, Page 9
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