AMERICAN TRAVERSE PARTY AT POLE
A scientific traverse of eight men led by Mr Albert P Crary, and conducted by the University of Wisconsin, arrived at the South Pole at 2.30 p.m. (local time) yesterday after a 1200-mile journey from McMurdo Sound that took them 65 days. The traverse party now becomes the seventh of any nationality to reach the South Pole and is the second to arrive there this season. Included in the party were a geophysicist, two glaciologists. a geomagnetician, two traverse engineers, and a Russian exchange scientist On their way to the South Pole the party travelled largely over regions never before explored by man. Daily stops were made at 25-mile intervals to take seismological and glaclologieal readings, and -very 75 miles a full day was spent taking more detailed readings and ice temperatures.
Three tracked vehicles were used on the journey. Two 12-
ton snocats each towed a special “rolligon" consisting of a large cargo platform slung between four large rubber tyres. Each tyre held 500 gallons of diesel fuel, and each platform carried three to four tons of supplies. Throughout the journey aircraft from the McMurdo Sound base on Ross Island kept Mr Crary's party supplied.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29437, 13 February 1961, Page 10
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