FOUR MONTHS ICE BOUND
MESSAGE FROM THE MAUD. SLOW DRIFT EASTWARD. (Received 7.30 p.m.) United Service. LONDON, Dec. 22. The following message from Captain W isting on Captain Amundsen's ship, Maud, dated December 15. has been received by wireless via Spitzbergen:— " The Maud left Point Hope, Alaska, on July 26, and sailed north-westward. We met ice in latitude 70 degrees. We had penetrated 56 miles bv August 7, when we sighted Hareld Island. " Winter, arrived exceedingly early. The Maud was frozen in on August 22, her position then being lat. 70deg. 20min. north, long. 175deg. 25min. west. We drifted variously and our position now is lat. TOde::. 20m. north, long. 173deg. west. "At 8 o'clock on the morning of October 26. the opening in the ice, in which the Maud lay, began to contract, pressing a large block of ice slowly but powerfully against the Maud's starboard side. This W3s her first experience of screwing. It lasted half an hour, at the end of which an ice barrier was formed ahead and astern three metres high, while the Maud herself was raised 2ft. above the water. " Contrary to expectations, we found few fauna. We saw some walruses and killed some seals, and two polar bears. Time passes smoothly and quietly. All are well."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18283, 27 December 1922, Page 5
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FOUR MONTHS ICE BOUND
New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18283, 27 December 1922, Page 5
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