THE LONG WAY HOME
First Stop At South Pole
Two ski-equipped DC3 aircraft flew 800 miles from the Argentine Antarctic base. Ellsworth Station, on the coast of the Weddell Sea, on Saturday and landed at the South Pole at 12.30 p.m. They landed four American scientists who had spent last winter at the Argentine station, and then flew back to Ellsworth after a stay of three hours and a half. The scientists are Mr L D. Drury, Mr D. W. Beaudoin, and Mr L. R. Seaquist, all meteorologists, and Mr W. C. Holt, an aurora specialist. They are now at McMurdo Sound, and will come to Christchurch on the next available transport. Mr E. Goodale, the United States Antarctic Research Programme representative in Christchurch, said yesterday that the men took that route out of Antarctica because of the possibility that the Argentine icebreaker San Martin might not be able to get in to resupply the base.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29716, 9 January 1962, Page 10
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