PARTY SAFE IN ANTARCTIC
Radio Contact Regained
United States Navy flyers have made radio contact with the University of Michigan glaciological survey party with which communication had been lost since December 26.
The party is on the Amundsen Glacier, about 600 miles from McMurdo Station and 350 miles from the South Pole.
They are surveying the margin of the Ross ice shelf and as they have only a lowpower radio were probably out of range of the American weather station on the Beardmore Glacier, or in a radio blind spot. A Navy Skytrain aircraft flew from McMurdo on Friday over the scientists’ camp. The party reported by radio that all was well.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29715, 8 January 1962, Page 16
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