BYRD EXPEDITION
LEADER'S UNDAUNTEJ COURAGE MONTHS OF ISOLATION Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, April 5. Commander Gjertsen returned from New Zealand to-day, bi'inging the first personal information to the Byrd headquarters here of the progress of the expedition previous to his departure with the Jacob Ruppert from Little America. He described the difficulties of unloading supplies at the ice barrier and aerial explorations which proved that some 200,000 square miles of the area between King Edward VII. Land and Gx-aham’s Land was an ice-covex-ed ocean. He said when he saw Admiral Byrd on Eebruax-y 6 he was in splendid physical coixdition. “It is just as well, because seven xnonths of isolation in a small hut at the advanced base calls for great physical resistance, as well as undaunted courage, which the Admiral possesses.” Commaxjder Gjertsen is proceeding home to Norway for the vacation and will return to Little Amei'ica in the autumn to evacuate the expedition.
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Evening Star, Issue 21689, 7 April 1934, Page 13
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157BYRD EXPEDITION Evening Star, Issue 21689, 7 April 1934, Page 13
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