TRACTORS BETTER THAN DOGS
Means Of Transport In Antarctic
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, November 13. That tractors can travel in weather which is quite impossible for dogs is one of the conclusions reached by Mr J. H. Miller, deputy leader of the New Zealand Antarctic party. In a letter to Mr A. S. Helm, secretary of the Ross Sea Committee, he says tractors with canopies can travel in blizzard conditions. The dog teams during the recent trip up the Skelton Glacier could travel on only six days and had to lie up for five days, with the result that they reached the depot on the edge of the plateau one day behind the tractors. Mr Miller says the best turn the dog parties did for the tractors was to lead them up the upper staircase on the Skelton in a "white out” when the tractors would otherwise have been unable to move. The tractors went ahead in a blizzard one morning when the dog sledges could not move. The dogs finally completed the journey to the plateau under conditions so poor that visibility scarcely reached from one sledge to the other.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28434, 14 November 1957, Page 21
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