RYMILL EXPEDITION
UNKNOWN ANTARCTIC REGION LONG SLEDGE JOURNEY (British Official Wireless) (Received 4th September, 12.7 p.m.) RUGBY. 3rd September. John Rymill and other members of the Antarctic expedition leave London within the next few days in the schooner Penola, which is now loading in London docks for the Falkland Islands, for which the advance party lias already left.
The expedition intends to make a sledge journey of 1000 miles or more across an entirely unknown region in Graham’s I .and, which is a dependency of the Falklands.
The expedition generally is considered the most important! British enterprise in the Antarctic since Shackleton’s ill-fated attempt to cross the continent nearly 20 years ago. . Tlie British Government made a grant to Rymill of £20,000 from the Research Development Fund of the Falkland Islands, and have ordered the Discovery II to help establishing the expedition's base.
The Geographical Society has put its resources at the service of the expedition, and contributed to its funds, as has also the City of London.
The Prince of Wales is patron of the undei taking. Rymill and several of his companions have had wide experience in polar travel.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 4 September 1934, Page 5
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