Permanent Residence At South Pole

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 55, 7 March 1939, Page 2

Permanent Residence At South Pole

MR. ELLSWORTH’S PLANS Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, March 6. Mr Lincoln Ellsworth, the explorer, was a through passenger on the Monterey. He told an Interviewer that he plans to be the first permanent resident at one of the earth’s poles. Leaving Dunedin with the expedition Cor the Antarctic in 1941, he will camp for the entire winter at the South Pole. “I have two statements to make,” Mr Ellsworth said. “First I propose to name as ‘American Highland* the 81,000 square miles of highly elevated, land south of Princess Elizabeth Land, over which I flew and which I claimed for the United States this year, second, in January 1941 I propose to establish a camp at the South Pole, where with two companions, I propose to winter, making continuous observations of importance in several branches of scientific research pertaining to this interesting spot.’* He stated his intention to sink a 500-foot shaft at the Pole for the purpose of studying the strata of the ice Thus it will be possible to determine the severity or otherwise of winters at the pole during past years. This would have an important influence upon gauging the effect of conditions at the Pole on meterological pheno* mena in the Southern Hemisphere. He will probably use two planes and dig them in at the Pole. He will fly from the Bay of Whales, from which distance to the pole is 70( miles.