NOTED AMERICAN EXPLORER

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20956, 9 September 1933, Page 13

NOTED AMERICAN EXPLORER

* MR LINCOLN ELLSWORTH ON WAY SOUTH VISIT TO MOUNT COOK FOR TRAINING [THE TKESS Special Service.] AUCKLAND, September 8. The famous Polar explorer, Mr Lincoln Ellsworth, returned by the Monterey'from a visit to the Islands. He was accompanied by Mrs Ellsworth and her mother, Mrs J. S. Ulmer. They left to-night by the Limited express on their way to the Hermitage, Mount Cook, where Mr Ellsworth will continue his training in preparation for the great flight across the Antarctic continent which he has planned for later in the year. Mr Ellsworth's party had intended visiting Fiji; but on the arrival of the Mariposa at Suva on August 28, the passengers were not allowed to land owing to an outbreak of influenza on the liner, and Mr and Mrs Ellsworth went on to Pago Pago, where they stayed four days until they joined the Monterey coming south. During their sojourn on the island, Mr Ellsworth took a daily walk of 20 miles. Mr Ellsworth stated that the supply ship of the expedition, the Wyatt Earp, which is bringing to New Zealand Sir Hubert Wilkins and Mr Bernt Balchen, RearAdmiral R. E. Byrd's famous air pilot on his flight to the South Pole, was making very slow progress on her long voyage from Norway. Owing to lack of ballast, she was doing only six knots, and it was unlikely that she would reach New Zealand before the end of next month. ADMIRAL BYRD'S PLANS DEPARTURE FROM BOSTON THIS MONTH WASHINGTON, September 7. Rear-Admiral R. E. Byrd announced to-day at the White House that he would sail from Boston on September 25 for another expedition to the South Pole. Admiral Byrd spent the night at the White House talking over his plans with Mr Roosevelt and departed to-day for New York to hasten his preparations for the exploration, which he expects will take Iwo years. "As long as there is an unexplored surface as big as that on the face of the earth," he said, "we ought to know about it. Also I think we can supply some of the missing links to the problems of science in thoroughly exploring this country that is in the clutches of the ice age." He will have about 70 men and several aeroplanes. His old base at Little America will be used again.