ANTARCTIC CONTINENT
AMERICAN EXPLORER’S PLANS ATTEMPT IN TWO OR THREE YEARS Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright MONTREAL, May 11. A message from Providence says that Mr Harold June, speaking at the annual dinner of the British Veterans’ Association of Rhode Island, revealed that he and Mr Lincoln Ellsworth were
planning a joint expedition to tlie Antarctic in the hope of finding what is thought to bo the last remaining continent in the world. He said the expedition would bo attempted in two or three years when new equipment would be designed, including a tractor to cfcrry two aeroplanes. They would; traverse the ice as far as possible and then take to the air to the new continent, which they hope to claim for the United States. The area is about onethird the size of Australia and is on a straight line through the South Pole from Little America.
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Evening Star, Issue 22336, 12 May 1936, Page 9
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147ANTARCTIC CONTINENT Evening Star, Issue 22336, 12 May 1936, Page 9
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