SNOW JEEPS
USE IN ANTARCTICA BRITISH-NORSE EXPLORERS STUDY OF CLIMATE LONDON. Dec. 3. a joint British-Norwegian-Swedish expedition to the Antarctic, probably in 1948-49, says Reuter’s correspondent in Oslo. Supplies will be parachuted to the scientists on the ice. The main purpose of the expedition is to study climatic changes which are believed to be occurring at the South Pole. The scientists will also investigate related problems of glaceology, meteorology, geology and climatic history. Professor Hans Ahlmana, the Swedish glaceology expert, is interested in whether the Antarctic territories in future will become a vast fertile habitable continent. Research has shown that the Arctic ice was thinning comparatively fast before the war. Antarctic expeditions say that the mountains are free of both ice and snow. The expedition expects to find much coal.
The Norwegians suggest that an international conference should consider the unsettled question of Antarctic sovereignty.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22196, 5 December 1946, Page 6
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