DASH TO SOUTH POLE.
BY MOTOR-LAUNCH TO ANTARCTIC. ! young englishman's plan. (vmrtn p„ Bb * BSocution _ bt ELBCTSIO JBLEOBiPH—COPrBIOHT.) LONDON, February 22. Mr Biddulph Pease, who was a midslupman with the Discovery Antarctic Expedition of 1925 and third officer of the William Scoresby expedition in 1928, intends to journey from London to the Antarctic, using a 50-foot motor-launch, with a cruising speed of 20 knots." ' He starts in the summer with five young companions, all of whom aro experts ifi meteorology. One is a wireless operator. Apart from the dash to the Pole, Mr Pease proposes to survey the possibility of establishing a permanent meteorological station on the Great Ice Barrier. Depots for tho final overland race to the Pole have already been planned.
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20789, 24 February 1933, Page 11
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