BYRD EXPEDITION
RETURN OF COMMANDER (Australian Press Association.) (By Cable—Press Assn.— Copyright.) BAY OF WHALES, March 23. Commander Byrd flew back from the mountains to-day after two days’ waiting for the wind to go down. The sky cleared this morning: With a cold sun shining, and the thermometer at 22 degrees below zero, the ’plane took off, and in less than three hours it was back again. Everyone was overjoyed to see Byrd step out of the cabin, in which he and his companions, Professor Barry Gould and June Hansom, had been packed, so tightly that they were almost spilling over on the pilot, Dean Smith. It was a happy end to an episode which might have had disastrous consequences, but was overcome by the efficient working of the entire organisation. Byrd, Gould and Hansom were surrounded by everyone in camp, anxious to know all about the ice, where the wind blows at the rate of 150 miles an hour. All were well, despite the severe cold nights they spent in their sleeping bags, foi’ the temperature was below zero.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 25 March 1929, Page 10
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