ELLSWORTH EXPEDITION
LEADER OUTLINES PLANS. [PKB PBKSS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, September 7. 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 the framework consisting of the general features along the route. It will remain for future explorers to fill in the detail. 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 proposes to fly from Deception Island 600 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 Wyatt Earp which would have to travel 2850 miles from Deception Island to pick him up. The personnell of the expedition would be the same as before with the exception of Dr. Cowan, who arrived today, to be medical officer.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 7 September 1934, Page 7
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