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PLANS: OF COPE EXPEDITION,
Australian and N.Z. _ Ciblo Association.
'LONDON, February *. Dx-. John Cope, in ■ announcing the details tor hi* expedition,; :staf«s tlia^ the final dash for tho Pole is - to; be, commenced on Christmas Day, and will be accomplished in. two'stages. I ho, aeroplane will carry three men and equipment sufficient to return to the base on. foot if necessary. - The party-' will take photographs from the Joir on the wliole journey, charting the ‘interior and exploring tracts hitherto uncharted., 'The expedition will _be purely scientific,, and will occupy five years. The aeroplane will explore the Polar Continent every summer. The Terra Nova'in tho. meantime will 'circumnavigate tho Antarctic. ; 1
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10507, 7 February 1920, Page 7
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113PURELY SCIENTIFIC New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10507, 7 February 1920, Page 7
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