EXPLORATION OF ANTARCTIC.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20909, 17 July 1933, Page 9

EXPLORATION OF ANTARCTIC.

MR ELLSWORTH LEAVES FOR N.Z. PARTY TO MEET IN DOMINION. iu.stied rprss asscku'iiox —bt electric TELEOHAPU—COri'RIOUr.) (Received July 15, 7.22 p.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, July 15. Mr Lincoln Ellsworth sailed aboard the liner Lurline, for New Zealand, where he will join Mr Bernt I Balchen and Sir Hubert Wilkins, who will accompany him to the Antarctic. j He is accompanied by his wife, who I will remain in New Zealand until the explorers return.

' Mr Lincoln Ellsworth, the American millionaire explorer, proposes to make ja flight across the Antarctic Continent from the Ross Sea to the Weddell Sea and back, next summer. His pilot will be Mr Balchen, who flew Admiral Byrd across the Atlantic, and later to the South Pole. Sir Hubert Wilkins, who is accompanying the expedition to its base, will act as a newspaper correspondent, and will do meteorological research. The Northrop aeroplane, which has been specially built, for the flight has a cruising speed of more than 200 miles an hour. Mr Ellsworth was commander and navigator of one of the seaplanes and on the Amundsen-Ellsworth expedition of 1925, and co-leader of the Amund-sen-EUsworth-NobiJe flight over the North Pole in the dirigible Norge, in 1926. He represented the American Geographic Society on the Arctic flight of the Graf Zeppelin in 1.031. A messaae published recently said that Mr Ellsworth planned to do some climbing in New Zealand before he left for the Antarctic.