FORCED BACK AGAIN

Evening Star, Issue 22194, 23 November 1935, Page 17

FORCED BACK AGAIN

THE ANTARCTIC FLIGHT IMPORTANT GEOGRAPHICAL DISCOVERY Press Association —By Telegraph—Cop,yrig’ NEW YORK, November 21. The North American newspaper ‘Alliance ’ has received a message from Dundee Island from Mr Lincoln Ellsworth stating; “We landed at 6.3(1 p.m. (Greenwich time), after another unsuccessful attempt to span*the Antarctic continent. Wo were 10 hours and a-half in the air, and were forced to turn back after reaching a point between latitudes 71 and 72 and longitudes 65 and 66 W. We encountered an unmapped chain of mountains of at least 12,000 feet altitude. Atmospheric conditions and cloud formations were such that it would have boon foolhardy to continue, especially as we were in a terrific tall wind, but we covered ono-tbird of the distance to Ross Sea and made an important discovery in that the mountain chain of which Graham Land is part rises again beyond Stefannson Strait on what is probably ono great Antarctic continent. We passed jagged peaks flying at an altitude of 12,000 feet on our course, which trended to the southwest. Clouds ranged for probably, 70 miles ahead, and even there we could sec a rolling cloud mass, apparently at a higher level, indicating another range higher than the one we saw. I was tempted to venture to fly above the clouds as far as the eightieth degree, but there would have been a grave flying risk, and it would not have supplied the information we seek. Disappointed at our setback, we returned to the Wyatt Earp, to try. our luck again as soon as the weather permits.”