BYRD’S LONELY VIGIL
MONTH OF ISOLATION SECOND WEEK OF DARKNESS INSTRUCTIONS TO EXPEDITION. DIRECTIONS BY RADIO. (Dmted Tress Association —Hy Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received 2.40 p.m. to-day. LITTLE AMERICA, April 29. Rear-Admiral Byrd has completed a month of isolation at the advance weather base. He is entering his second week of complete darkness. By radio ho retains the leadership of the expedition. Yesterday ho instructed Dr. Boulter to have full resources ready early in the spring to. start extensive scientific exploratory projects and to have tractors and aeroplanes thoroughly overhauled during the winter n ighx. Rear-Admiral Byrd revealed that drift was piling over the shack and had compelled him' to start a third tunnel as a means of escape in the event of the drift- trapping him. The shack has been wholly buried, and the only access to the surface has been through a double trap door in the roof of the vestibule. He said that otherwise all was well. The meteorological instruments were functioning despite the intense cold.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 30 April 1934, Page 7
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169BYRD’S LONELY VIGIL Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 30 April 1934, Page 7
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