ANTARCTIC JOURNEY
TRACTOR PARTY RETURNS EXTENSIVE PLATEAU FOUND (Received October 22. 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, Oct. 21 A message from Little America, RearAdmiral Byrd's base in the Antarctic, states that the tractor party, led by Mr. Harold June, which left the base on September 27, returned on Saturday from an eventful pioneering journey to the Edsel Ford Range, 240 miles to the east. i Mr. June announced the discovery of an extensive ice ridge and plateau between the Rockefeller Mountains, King Edward VII. Land, and the Edsel Ford Range. The journey also marked the first penetration by a ground party into the glaciated wastes of this section of Marie Byrd Land, which was discovered by Admiral Byrd on the 1929 flight. During the trip, the party encountered a fierce blizzard, which compelled it to shelter for six days. The tractor ascended the Grace MeKinley Peak via the southern face, where the explorers found the first bare rock they had seen for nearly a year. Fortunately the weather was good, or else, as Mr. June remarked, they might have been driven to death off the peak, as the north side is a sheer drop of 1200 ft.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21938, 23 October 1934, Page 10
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196ANTARCTIC JOURNEY New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21938, 23 October 1934, Page 10
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