ANTARCTIC SURVEY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 150, 27 May 1936, Page 9

ANTARCTIC SURVEY.

RYMILL PARTY’S SUCCESS. (Times Cables.) LONDON, May 26. A world copyright message to the Times from the Rymill Antarctic Expedition in Graham Land says: “Since the discovery of new land to the southward the expedition has made further discoveries northward of the present base at Marguerite Bay on a flight over Laubeuf Fjord, which is a steepwalled cleft between two high mountain regions, so high on the east side that Hampton and Stevenson could not see what was beyond. Charcot believed that a second strait he named Lallemand Fjord might extend between Matha and Marguerite Bays parallel with and eastward of Laubeuf Fjord.

“Taking off from the Argentine Islands in good conditions at 3 p.m. on March 31, Hampton and Stevenson returned at sunset after a most satisfactory flight. Laubeuf Fjord proved to be the only through channel between the bays. The whole region eastward is mainland. Lallemand Fjord is only a bay lying south of Matha Bay. “The aeroplane flew the entire length o! a wide low-lying snowfield valley leading through the mountains to Marguerite Bay. We now know the trend of the major fjords and what part of the mountain groups form islands and what are mainland promontories. AVe now possess a map indicating in some detail the West Graham Land coast from the old base to the newly-discov-ered mountain as far as Alexander Island, a distance of about 400 miles. The north part of the coastline is properly surveyed. There remains to be done a ground survey of the southern section.

“'the main work in the coming season will be the exploration of the little-known Graham Land Antarctic coast south-eastward to Luitpold Land and south-westward to Charcot Land.”