DEATH ON ICE FLOE
Weather Expert In Arctic
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22. A United States weather expert, the first to winter in both Polar regions, died a week ago on a drifting ice floe near the centre of the Arctic Ocean.
A United States Air Force plane —(carrying a doctor and an oxygen tent—was on the way to rescue the man, Robert Jones, aged 25. Mr Jones, a Weather Bureau meteorologist, died from congestion of the lungs. Mr Jones spent the last winter in Antarctica at Byrd Station. He then volunteered to help-man a station on an ice floe in the Arctic. Since the seasons alternate north and south of the Equator, he pursued the winter night from one Pole to the other.
Both stations were set up as part of the United States programme for the International Geophysical Year. Mr Jones was already a veteran of Arctic drift. He was stationed oi T-3. an ice island which moves slowly through the Arctic Ocean. He left Byrd Station in November, reaching the ice floe on January 5 to relieve another weather bureau obsarvar.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28492, 23 January 1958, Page 11
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