EXPLORER'S PLANS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22714, 28 April 1937, Page 11

EXPLORER'S PLANS

1 MR. LINCOLN ELLSWORTH FLIGHT IN ANTARCTIC NEW YORK. April 2H Mr. Lincoln Ellsworth, famous millionaire American airman and explorer, is planning, according to a copyright despatch from the North American Newspaper Alliance, a flight from Enderby Land to the Bay of Whales, J?oss Sea, south of New Zealand. He will traverse an unknown area ostensibly rich in geologic and economic surprises. The supply ship Wyatt Earp, in which Mr. Ellsworth travelled previously to the Antarctic, again will bo fitted out in Norway and will load a new aeroplane in the United States. Mr. Ellsworth will join the ship at Capetown. He said the area was claimed by Australia by virtue of Sir Douglas Mawson's coastal discoveries. Asked whether it was worth risking his life for exploration, Mr. Ellsworth explained that exploration was his career. The Antarctic was land, and land, wherever it was, was valuable. "Who can say the day will not return when Antarctica will again become tropical and a continent emerge which will be the hope of the world?" Mr. Ellsworth added.