ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION
A BRITISH ENTERPRISE. [BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.] RUGBY, September 3. John Rymill and other members of the Antarctic Expedition, will leave London within the next few days in the schooner Penola, which is now loading in London Docks for the Falkland Islands, for which an advance party has already left. The Expedition intends to make a sledge journey of 1000 miles or more across an entirely unknown region in Graham Land, which is a dependency of the Falklands. The expedition generally is considered the most important British enterprise in the Antarctic since Shackleton’s ill-fated attempt to cross the Continent nearly 20 years ago. The British Government made a grant to Rymill, of £20,000 from the Research Development Fund, Falkland and have ordered the Discovery 11. to help in establishing the Expedition’s base. The Royal Geographical Society put its resources at the service of the Expedition and contributed to its funds, as has also the City of London. The Prince of Wales is patron of the undertaking. Rymill and several of his companions have had a wide experience of Polar travel.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 4 September 1934, Page 5
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