TO THE NORTH POLE
AMUNDSEN STARTS
IDEAL WEATHER CONDITIONS
TWO FLYING BOATS ENGAGED IN
(UNHID TRISS ASSOCIATION—COPIBIOHT.) CAUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLB ASSOCIATION.)
(Received 22nd May, 2.30 p.m.)
LONDON, 21st May. A copyright message from Captain Amundsen at King's Bay states that the meteorologists to-day report high pressure over the polar basin, and stable observation balloons indicate light east-south-easterly winds to a height of fifteen hundred metres and light northeasterly winds thencs to a height of three thousand metres. These have swept away local etorms, so the party can depend on clear weather north of Spitzbergen and the polar ice. "You cannot expect to start under better conditions than are now prevailing, so we advise you to start to-day," added the meteorologists. I therefore decided to attempt to start to-day at 3 o'clock in the afternoon from the frozen fjord at Kink's Bay. . °
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 118, 22 May 1925, Page 8
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141TO THE NORTH POLE Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 118, 22 May 1925, Page 8
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