ANTARCTIC EXPLORERS.
SEVERE BLIZZARD BLOWS.
LOW BAROMETER READINGS. United Service. NEW . YORK, Aug. 18. LBy Mr. Russell Owen. Copyright 1028 by the New York Times Company ami tho Si. Louis l'ost Dispatch. All rights for publication reserved throughout the world. Wireless to the New York Times.] BAY OF WHALES. Aug 17. A severa blizzard has been blowing for two days and we have had the lowest barometer reading yet recorded on this trip and one of the lowest ever known in the Antarctic.
All day yesterday the wind raged round our chimney-pipes and ventilators, sometimes exceeding 50 miles an hour. The drift snow was so thick that it shut off our vision as if it were a wall.
To-day tho barometer is down to 27.82. Few members of the Byrd expedition ventured out between our houses. They preferred the tunnel, for the only way to steer oneself out of doors was by occasional glimpses of the cloud-covered moon and by the direction of the wind.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20338, 20 August 1929, Page 9
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