DODGING ICE.

Grey River Argus, 15 February 1929, Page 5

DODGING ICE.

BYRD’S SHlPs' BAY OF WHALES, February 12. ‘‘The weather continues execrable. We are still beating up and down a stiff nor’-easter, waiting for the storm to pass. The barometer is going up, but that doesn’t mean much times down here. This is the sevinth day of unrest and it does not appear we shall get back into the Bay ice for some time. The ship is practically unloaded. One more day will finish the work. ‘Our position is complicated by the fact that this long and unusual spell of wind from the toast and north has from the unknown region above us, brought down a lot of heavy pack ice and so that we should not be caught between it and the Bay ice, and be squeezed, we have had to thread oui way through large floes and get en tirely outside the Bay into the open sea. The conditions must be very unusual, for Amundsen’s Fram only put to sea twicD during her stay here, whereas we have almost lost track of the number of times we have left the Bay ice to avoid being crashed against it by the S'a. ”