LAST PIONEER FLIGHT

Evening Star, Issue 21819, 7 September 1934, Page 6

LAST PIONEER FLIGHT

ELLSWORTH ARRIVES FOR ANTARCTIC VENTURE HIS FINAL UNDERTAKING [Peii United Press Association.! AUCKLAND, September 7. Mr Lincoln Ellsworth arrived by the Mariposa to-day, and will leave Dunedin by the Wyatt Earp for the Antarctic towards the end of this month. “ This flight will be the last I shall undertake,” he said, “if it succeeds I shall rest content with having been the first man to fly across both the North and South Polar regions. I think of my flight merely as a voyage of discovery. The best I can hope to accomplish is to construct a framework consisting of the general features along *the route. It will remain for future explorers to fill in the detail, and it is the only great pioneer flight left to be made.” On his former trip he proposed to fly from Ross Sea to Weddell Sea and back.' This time he proposed to fly from Deception Island, GOO miles south of Cape Horn across the continent from Weddell Sea to Ross Sea. At Ross Sea he would establish a camp and await the Wvatt Earp, which would have to travel "2,850 miles from Deception Island to pick him up. Tho personnel of the expedition would bo the same as before, with the exception of Dr Coman, who arrived to-day to be the medical officer.