TRAVERSES IN ANTARCTIC
Steady Progress Made Progress at the rate of about 20 miles a day has been made by two of the overland traverse parties in the Antarctic this season. The tractor train of three 37ton tractors, sleds, and two weasels which left the Byrd station on December 8 for an 800-mile trip to the South Pole has now covered 466 miles. Led by Major A. Havola this party is responsible for the delivery of the tractors to the South Pole for construction work next summer. The party consists of II men. Some scientific work is being carried out en route.
A party of eight men which is travelling 1400 miles by sno-cat from the American base on Ross Island, in McMurdo Sound, to the South Pole station has covered 492 miles. This traverse is led by Mr A. P. Crary, chief scientist of the United States Antarctic Research Programme. Two large 11-ton sno-cats are being used to tow sledges and "roilitankers"—large rubber tyres filled with diesel fuel—and a smaller sno-cat is carrying a crevasse detector and ice-drill-ing equipment. Glaciological and geological research is being carried out by this party as well as routine meteorological readings.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29402, 3 January 1961, Page 10
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