Ellsworth To Go To Antarctic Again
(Received 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, February 28
The American explorer, Mr Lincoln Ellsworth, to-day announced a new expedition to the Antarctic in 1941. when he will camp the entire winter at the South Pole, with two companions, “to pursue observations of importance in several branches of scientific research.”
Mr Ellsworth is not certain whether he will leave, for the south from Australia or New Zealand. He will prob-
ably use two aeroplanes, and dig them in at the Pole, flying from the Bay of Whales to the Pole, a distance of 700 miles.
Mr Ellsworth pointed out that leading subjects of research there would be meteorological conditions and ionisation of the atmospheric layers. He added: “I also propose to name as the ‘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.”
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Northern Advocate, 1 March 1939, Page 7
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