POLAR EXPLORATION

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 234, 15 September 1934, Page 10

POLAR EXPLORATION

Byrd Expedition’s Projects

By telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright LITTLE AMERICA, September 13.

Among the projects planned for this spring, tor which the expedition is making ready, is a long tractor trip towards the Edsel Ford range, to the eastward, to lay a sub-base for a Hight which may be attempted before the month is out.

The senior meteorologist, Mr Morgan, plans to leave the camp shortly ou a swing around the Amundsen Arm, taking seismic soundings of the ocean bottom in an attempt to discover it the barrier is grounded here and explain the baffling problem ol how the Hay ol Whales maintains its conformation in this mmmstant ice front. Trail parties will carry the scientists to the tdscl Ford and Queen Maude ranges during October The autogiro has already made a serles oi Hights at an altitude of 10,UDO feet, and will make others in the interests oi meteorological findings RETURNING ~TO ENGLAND British Official Wireless Service. RUGBY, September 13. A message from Angmagesalik to the Greenland Board at Copenhagen states that the British Lmds.iv Arctic Expedition. following a sate ending of their perilous 1000-mile journey over inland ice, are expected to embark for home on September IS on the British trader Javinth, which has been fishing in ad jacenf, aes?.