BYRD EXPEDITION
GEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES PARTY'S SUCCESSES NEW YORK. Dec. 12 A radio message from Little America, Rear-Admiral Byrd's base in the Antarctic, states thai the expedition's geological party, which is more than 500 miles south of the base, states by radio that it is 182 nautical miles from the South Pole at the head of the Thorne Glacier. The party found new coalfields and a plant-bearing sandstone holding numerous fossils. It reached the head of the Thorne Glacier on December 7.
"We have sighted new mountains and glaciers," the party reported, "but are experiencing almost continuous strong winds, which somewhat curtail our activity."
A Press Association message from Dunedin eavs that Lieutenant English, captain of Bear-Admiral Byrd's supply ship Bear of Oakland, states that the. cablegram from Montreal refering to the expedition's return in January was probably misinterpreted. There was no intention to remain on the ice for more than a year, althbugh the expedition would be absent from the United States for nearly two years. *
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21983, 14 December 1934, Page 13
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