U.S. Observers Visit Mirny
Four United States observers inspecting other nations’ bases in the Antarctic under the Antarctic Treaty provisions have paid their first visit to a Soviet base. On Sunday they flew the 706 miles from McMurdo Station to Vostok Station on the first of three flights which took Navy seabees and equipment for a 130 ft antenna which the seabees are to build at Vostok for a combined cosmic ray study. The observers spent the night at the Russian base and returned to McMurdo Station in the return flight of the third supply flight to Vostok. Yesterday the observers were to fly from McMurdo Station to Mirny, the main Soviet base on the continent, but the flight was delayed. It is now expected to be made today.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30338, 14 January 1964, Page 10
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