WORK IN ANTARCTIC

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 117, 19 May 1937, Page 11

WORK IN ANTARCTIC

j EXPLORERS RETURN

GRAHAMLAND EXPEDITION

2-k YEARS' ABSENCE

("Times" Cable.) , (Received May 19, 11.40 a.m.)

LONDON, May 18.

Seven members of the Grahamland Expedition, including Mr. John^Rymill, arrived at Liverpool after two and a half years' work in the, Antarctic. It it only two months since they -left the base on the west coast of Grahamland.

Other members of the expedition, with an aeroplane and a motor-boat, are expected to arrive at the weekend, and the expedition's schooner will arrive at the end of August.

The three-masted schooner Penola, carrying the expedition led by Mr. John Eymill, left London on September 10, ■ 1934, for Grahamland, Antarctica, taking supplies for three years. The expedition was described as the most important since Shackleton's, the object being to discover whether Antarctica is one or two continents. A sledge journey of 1000 miles was to be made behind the Weddell Sea, but it was not intended to reach'the Pole. Two months after the departure of the Rymill expedition Admiral Richard Byrd, in a message from Little America, stated that a flight over the region had provided long-sought information confirming the existence of a transcontinental passage dividing Antarctica. Later messages reported the discovery of a large expanse of new land. A long sledge trip was also made across Grahamland.