ANTARCTIC SURVEYS

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29898, 11 August 1962, Page 13

ANTARCTIC SURVEYS

University Party -The Press” Special Service WELLINGTON. August 10. During the coming summer the sixth Victoria University Antarctic expedition would head farther south and higher than any previous university expedition, said the Professor of Geology at Victoria 'Professor R. H. Clark) yesterday. The party of six members, including the New Zealand leader and an American professor as deputy leader, would carry out geological and glaciological surveys on the Darwin Glacier, 200 miles south of Scott Base, and between 6000 and 7000 ft above sea level, said Professor Clark.

The glacier came out on to the Ross Ice Shelf about halfway between Ross Island and the Beardmore Glacier. “Not far from the ice shelf, and about halfway up the glacier to the Antarctic Plateau there are quite large areas of exposed rock. That is where the expedition will be working," he said. The expedition would be flown south in November It would spend four months in the Antarctic on the survey, being landed in the area by the Americans and flown out in February at the end of the season

The expedition will be led by a university veteran of two previous expeditions, Mr I. Willis The deputy-leader will be an American, Professor C. C Rich. Others in the party will be four university students, Messrs T. Haskell. J. Kennett, W. M. Prebble, and G. J. Smith.