BYRD EXPEDITION
SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES PARTY IN THE ANTARCTIC (Received September 14, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, Sept.. 13 A wireless message from the Byrd Antarctic expedition at Little America says: Among the projects planned for this spring for which the expedition is making ready, is a long tractor trip toward the Edsel Ford range to the east in order to lay a sub-base for a flight which may be attempted before the month is out. The senior meteorologist, Mr. Morgan, plans to leave the camp shortly on a swing around the Amundsen Ann to take seismic soundings of the ocean bottom, in an attempt to discover if the Barrier is grounded here and to explain the batTling problem of how the Bay of Whales maintains its conformation in this inconstant ice-front.
Trail parties will carry the scientists to the Edsel Ford and Queen Maude ranges during October. The autogiro has already made a series of flights to an altitude of 10,000 feet and will make others in the interests of meteorological findings.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21906, 15 September 1934, Page 13
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