OFF TO ANTARCTIC

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 56, 4 September 1934, Page 9

OFF TO ANTARCTIC

RYMILL EXPEDITION

IMPORTANCE EMPHASISED

SHACKLETON RECALLED.

(British Official Wireless.)

(Received September 4, 11 a.m.) \ BUGBY, September 3.

Mr. John Rymill and other member* of his Antarctic expedition leave London within the next few days in the schooner Penola, which is now loading in London docks for the Falkland Islands for which the advance partyhave already left. The expedition intends to make a sledge journey of 1000 miles or more across an entirely unknown region in Graham Laud which is a dependency of the Falklands.

The expedition is generally considered the most important British enterprise in the Antarctic since Sir Ernest Shaekleton's ill-fated attempt to cross the Antarctic Continent nearly 20 years ago. The British Government has made a grant to Mr. Bymill of £20,000 from the research and development fund of the Falkland Islands and has ordered Discovery II to help in establishing the expedition's base. The Royal Geographical Society has put its resources at the services of the expedition, and has contributed to its funds as has also the City of London. The Prince of AVales is patron of the undertaking. Mr.| Bymill and several of his. companions have had wide experience in Polar travel.