BYRD'S EXPEDITION

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 31 January 1930, Page 5

BYRD'S EXPEDITION

INVESTIGATING CREVASSES

(Copyright from Byrd Expedition) (By Russell Owen)

BAY OF WHALES, 29th January. While waiting for the ship some final work is .being done investigating the tremendous chasms and ice gorges, for they are much more than crevasses, south-west of the Bay of Whales. There are inlets and ice-walled openings in the barrier running west nearly forty miles and probably caused by the barrier' being forced over submerged land. Captain McKinley, with Doctor Gould, geologist, and Captain Parker, pilot, new over them and photographed them with a 20-inch lens camera. They obtained pictures that show these remarkable formations of huge canyons with the floors covered with a jumbled and broken mass of ice. Great fissures run off from them, their edges fringed with graceful, overhanging cornices of snow. There is every evidence of overpowering forces. There are many openings in the bottoms of these gorges and to-day a sledging party went out to sound through such holes as they could reach and obtain records of the depth. Balchen, Strom, Braarthen and Crockett, who took with him a radio set, composed the party. They were to have started yesterday but a blizzard which came up the night before and lasted until last night held them in camp, To-day, however, the snow is partly clear with a cool wind from.the south.

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