EXPEDITION TO ANTARCTIC
ANNOUNCEMENT BY PRESIDENT (K.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 8.30 p.m.) DENVER, October 2. President Eisenhower’s holiday headquarters announced today the United States would send a small navy-directed expedition to the Antarctic, an area ot great potential strategic importance in the event ot war. The brief announcement at the Denver headquarters said the decision to dispatch an icebreaker to the southern polar area "is in line with continuing United States interest in the region." The expedition will set out soon and remain four or five months, it* was announced. It added that in addition to mapmaking and collecting scientific data, the exploring party will study supply problems which will face a United States group taking part in an international geophysics programme in the Antarctic in 1957-58. No permanent shore bases will be established.
The United States so far has refrained from staking any claim to territory in the South Pole area, but the importance of the region in the event of a war with the Soviet Union has been under lengthy study by military experts.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19541004.2.38
Bibliographic details
Press, Volume XC, Issue 27471, 4 October 1954, Page 6
Word Count
176EXPEDITION TO ANTARCTIC Press, Volume XC, Issue 27471, 4 October 1954, Page 6
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.