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BYRD’S SHIP PRESSING ON. • ' _____ ' ■ •' INDICATIONS OF A GOOD SEASON ■ (By' Telegraph-Press Assn-Copyright.) (Received This Day, 8.55 a.m.) ; (Special towHuited Press Association). AT SEA, Saturday. The Byrd Expedition is pressing effortlessly at half-speed through exten- ' give lee-fields. The Jacob Buppert, at 4 p.m. on Thursday approximately 136 .miles south of Cook’s “Farthest South,” along the 150th. meridian. JThere was a grey plaza of ice in all directions, tout on the horizon the sky had a darker, aspect, with promises of ■ open water to the southward.^ Bear-Admiral Byrd instructed Gjertgen to “steer along the 150th meridian until ice stops you.” ■ The Jacob Buppert will hold her ‘ - course until cemented pack-ice or the barrier bars the way. . Traditionally this approach tp the Antarctica is Invested with the stormiest waters and perhaps the . ' most impenetrable pajek doe, but this aetywm the latter has retreated . ; fair below the charted northern limits. ... The ship encountered the first packlee at ten o ’clock this morning.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 December 1933, Page 5
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