LEAVE FROM ANTARCTIC.
EXPEDITION MEMBER’S REPORT. NEW YORK, April 5. Commander Gjertsen returned from New Zealand to-day, bringing the first personal information to ltear-Admiral R. E. Byrd’s headquarters here of the progress of the expedition previous to his departure with the Jacob Ruppert from Little America. He described the difficulties of unloading supplies at the Ice Barrier and the aerial explorations that proved that some 200,000 square miles of the area between King Edward VII Land and Graham’s Land was ice-covered ocean.
Commander Gjertsen said that when he saw Admiral Byrd on February 6 the loader was in splendid physical condition. “It was just as well, because seven months’ isolation in a small hut at the advanced base calls for great physical resistance as well as undaunted courage, which the Admiral possesses.” Commander Gjertsen is proceeding home to Norway for a vacation, returning to Little America in the autumn to bring borne the members of the expedition.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 109, 7 April 1934, Page 7
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