LIFE IN THE ANTARCTIC
THE BYRD EXPEDITION. SEVERE BLIZZARD BLOWING. Wireless to the New York Times. By Russell Owen. BAY OP WHALES, August 18. (Received August 19, at 8 p.m.) A severe blizzard has been blowing for two days, with the lowest barometer yet recorded on this trip and one of the lowest ever recorded in the Antarctic. All yesterday the wind whooped round the chimney pipes and ventilators, sometimes exceeding 50 miles an hour, with the drift snow so thick that it shut off the vision as if by a wall. The barometers were down to 27.82. Few of the men went over the top between the houses, preferring the tunnel, for the only way to steer was by occasional glimpses of the cloud-covered moon and by the direction of the wind.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20800, 20 August 1929, Page 9
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