TRAPPED IN STORM
Australians In Antarctic
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) CANBERRA.. May 19.
Five Australians battled their way 56 miles on foot across part of the Antarctic after being trapped for four days by blizzards. News of the men's plight was radioed to Canberra and released yesterday by the Department of External Affairs.
The trapped men left the Australian base at Mawson on March 31 in a tractor train on a journey 100 miles inland to dump fuel for a southern traverse later this year. The party was led by Mr G. Maslen. of Queensland, the officer in charge at Mawson.
While the five men were returning to Mawson on foot, another party left on April 9 to relieve them. The relief party was also stranded by a blizzard, at Rumdoodle, 12 miles inland from Mawson.
Meanwhile, the first party reached Rumdoodie after walking 36 miles and has since returned to Mawson.
A third group left Mawson on April 19 to recover the stranded vehicles left by the relief party. They managed to start them, but later one tractor became wedged and was temporarily abandoned in a large crevasse.
The department said that a succession of fierce blizzards had hampered work at the Australian station at Mawson since the 1961 party took over.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29518, 20 May 1961, Page 14
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