ANTARCTIC JOURNEY
Russians To Visit Three Poles
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 9 p.m.) CAPETOWN, January 12.
Members of the fourth Soviet Antarctic expedition left today on their way to attempt the longest land journey ever undertaken in . ntarctica.
Their planned 3700-mile journey —about 1600 miles longer than the transpolar trek completed by Dr. Vivian Fuchs and his Commonwealth team last year—will take them to three poles, the south pole, the magnetic pole and the pole of greatest inaccessibility. The expedition sailed today in the Russian liner Mikhail Kalinin, in company with a Polish expedition for the Soviet Antarctic base at Mirny.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28793, 14 January 1959, Page 7
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