PLANNING ANOTHER EXPEDITION
■ — ♦ —— . MR LINCOLN ELLSWORTH INTERVIEWED PRECIOUS METALS SOUGHT (FBXS3 ASSOCIATION" TEUSGEAM.) DUNEDIN, August 19. According to a Pittsburg newspaper received in Dunedin, Mr Lincoln Ellsworth stated in an interview on July 20 that he was planning to launch another ship and aeroplane expedition to the Antarctic. “I want to fly in from- Enderby Land” the explorer said, "and .approach the Bay of Whales (Little America) from the other side. Antarctica covers about 5,000,000 square miles. It is a bigger continent than all Europe, At least half is still uncharted. Three hundred miles from the South Pole, there are 100 miles of coal seams 40 feet thick. The flight might divulge the presence of precious metals.” :
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21866, 20 August 1936, Page 8
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