THE FROZEN SOUTH

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 304, 10 December 1929, Page 5

THE FROZEN SOUTH

BYRD’S GEOLOGISTS EXPLORING QUEEN MAUD RANCE. ROCKS TELL AN AMAZING STORY. thy Russell Owen, copyright, IMS, by the "New fork Times" Company ant the "St. Louie Post Dispatch." All rights for publication reserved tnroughom the world. Wlreleeo to the "New I’ork Times.’’! (Received 10, 9.30 a.m.)’ Bay of Whale*, Dec. 8. 'Larry Gould’s geological party ia the Queen Maud Range have climbed part of the way up Mount Nansen, to the west of the Axel Heiberg Glacier, Gould’s reports have been as follows “ ‘December 6: The present camp, which is west of Mount Betty, on Axel Heiberg, is at 85 degrees, two minutes south and 165.30 west longitude. O’Brien, Thorne and I started for Mount Betty to-day, but heavy fog came up and we had to return. We have established our mountain base here and with better weather w* shall start up the glacier to-morrow with two weeks’ supply, in an attempt to reach the flat-lying rock* that cap Mount Nansen. “ ‘December 7: We came up the western portion of Axel Heiberg yesterday and camped in a snowstorm on the north side of Mount Nansen. The rocks are very difficult to reach, with crevasses on all the borders of the glacier, but we climbed 6,500 feet up the flank of Mount Nansen to-day and found a series of rocks that has told us a geological story of such amazing interest as to make the whole trip worth the effort. We have only started and have been in clouds most of the time for the last three days and it greatly interferes with our work.’