THEIR ICY HOME

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 21, 25 July 1933, Page 3

THEIR ICY HOME

NAVAL OFFICERS' TASK

Three officers of the Royal Navy-* Lieutenant-Commander E. H. B. Baker, Lieutenant I). W. Deane, and SurgeonLieutenant E.-AV. Bingbam, are leaving for Labrador, where they will undertake an adventure that ia unique in. tha records 'tif the Navy's survey' se'r\-ice, to which these officers arc attached/ From November next until July ot next year they are to live ashore at Nam, a central point of the Labrador coast. They left England in H.M.S. Challenger and are due to arrive at Nain just before the winter period sets in. From the time they land until tha ice breaks up again and enables the Challenger to' re-embark them . they will be quite cut off from civilisation and have no touch with the outsids world. Each officer is to be supplied with an Eskimo dog team, Trith which he will, during his eight months ,of isolation, make long journeys across the ice which seals'up the coast. Their purpose on these journeys will bo to discover and mark the position, of the rocks which make navigation along the shores of Labrador so dangerous. They will do this by observing where "humps" indicate the location of a rock beneath the ice. Lieutenant-Commander Baker is an.' expert marine surveyor, Lieutenant Deane has had experience in Iceland, and Surgeon-Lieutenant Bingham wa3 a member "of the Courtauld-Watkina Arctic expedition.