THE LONLIEST ISLE.

Grey River Argus, 14 December 1928, Page 5

THE LONLIEST ISLE.

Scott's Discovery Confirmed. BYRD S EXPEDITION IN DIFFICULT PACK ICE. "VANCOUVER, December 12. A message from the Byrd Expedition says: lie confirmed the existence of Scott Island, which has been in doubt ever since Scott first discovered it. We nearly got lost in dangerous ice packs. We lost a hawser, and saw a whale caught. Now we are alongside the pack and preparing to enter it. The finding of Scott Island is a source of great gratification to Byrd as other ships reported passing over the spot where it was supposed to exist without seeing it. The island is the loneliest in the world, lost in ice and wilderness of troubled waters. In dodging the ice, the Eleanor Bolling broke away from the City of New York. Both ships then made a way singly through the ice packs. Navigation was difficult., and the vessels once found themselves between the main pack and an enormous piece of pack, which Byrd described as the worst he had ever seen. Both ships hurried out, for to have been caught there would have been serious.

Byrd slipped on the deck and was knocked out. He had been on duty continuously for two days, in the attempt to take coal from the Bolling, but abandoned the task owing to rough weather.