BYRD EXPEDITION
DIFFICULTIES DESCRIBED
COMMANDER CJERTSEN IN
NEW YORK
NEW YORK, April 5,
Commander Gjertsen returned from New Zealand today, bringing tho first personal information to Admiral Byrd's headquarters here of the progress of the expedition previously to his departure with the Jacob Euppert from little America.
He described the difficulties of unloading supplies at tho Ice Barrier and the aerial explorations that proved that some 200,000 square miles of the area between King Edward VII Land and Graham's Land was ice-covered ocean. . • ■
Commander Gjertsen said when ho saw Admiral Byrd on February 6 the leader was in splendid physical condition. "It was just as well, because seven months' isolation in a small hut at the advanced base calls for great physical resistance as well as undaunted courage, which the Admiral
possesses:" Commander Gjertsen is proceeding home to Norway for a vacation, returning to Little America in the autumn to bring home the members of tho expedition.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 82, 7 April 1934, Page 13
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