MOUNTAINS OF ANTARCTICA

Evening Star, Issue 20374, 4 January 1930, Page 11

MOUNTAINS OF ANTARCTICA

GEOLOGICAL PARTY'S DISCOVERIES SANDSTONE OH PEAK Special to Press. Association from the Byrd Expedition by Husserl ’Owen. (Copyright.) BAY OF WHALES, January 3. (Received January 4, at 10 a.m.). Unshaven since they left Little America, the-Gould party is plodding back to the base with important records.

“We have roughly charted 150 miles of the Queen Maud Range,” said Professor Gould, in a radio message. He added’: “Vjfe demonstrated that there is no Carmen Land, but that the range extends eastward beyond the 140th meridian, and therefore that the, possibility of the Ross and Weddell Seas being connected, demands attention. Again, we have been able to make many glaciological studies, and my geological studies will demonstrate that the great mountain ranges which take their rise far away on' the western side of the Ross Sea are continued as the major feature of the landscape in a fairly unbroken fashion, certainly as far as the 140th meridian. CAPPING MOUNT NANSEN.

“I did find sandstone with a layer of, highly carbouacious material. This I am sure is beacon sandstone. X had to climb up 6,000 ft to reach those cap rocks on Nansen. From a.distance 1 had thought that they wore all volcanic rocks. There are no symphonies I have ever heard ever gave me quite the thrill that X had when I reached out after this tremendous . climb and picked up a rock to find it sandstone. Here was what I had come all the way to the Antarctic to find. Eddie, Mike, and Freddy, who were with me, will tell you that X even forgot to cuss. Everyone is happy, for we are heading back to you with the feeling 'that we have done all that we set out to do, and perhaps a little more.”