POLAR EXPEDITIONS
EXPLORERS' PLANS
ADMIRAL BYRD HONOURED
(By Telegraph.) (Special to the "livening Post.") DUNEDIN, This Day. News of forthcoming Polar expeditions is contained in a letter from New York from Lieutenant Carl O. Petersen, a member of the Byrd Antarctic expedition, to the secretary of the Dunedin branch of the New Zealand Antarctic Society. Lieutenant Petersen was 1 recently presented by RearAdmiral Harris Laning, United States Naval Commandant of the Third Naval District, with the Distinguished Flying Cross for extraordinary achievement while participating in flights as photo-gi-apher and radio operator with the Byrd second Antarctic expedition.
Lieutenant Petersen states that Sir Hubert Wilkins is in England in connection with his scheduled submarine trip to the North Pole. He is planning to start next year. Lincoln Ellsworth is planning another trip to the Antarctic in the Enderby. sector. His ship the Wyatt Earp will sail from Los Angeles next summer for Cape Town, which will be his base. Admiral Byrd is also planning an expedition to the Antarctic again, but there is nothing definite yet. At a dinner given in his honour in New York by the Explorers' Club Admiral Byrd was awarded the coveted medal of the Explorers' Club.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 89, 12 October 1937, Page 16
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