ANTARCTICA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20917, 6 January 1930, Page 7

ANTARCTICA

GEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES. SANDSTONE ROCK FOUND. MOUNTAIN RANGE CHARTED. (Copyright.) By Russell Owen. BAY OF WHALES, January 3. Unshaven since they left Little America, the Gould party is plodding i back to the base with important records. I “We have roughly charted 150 miles I of the Queen Maud Range,” said Professor Gould in a radio message. He added: “ We demonstrated that there is no Carmen Land, but that the range extends eastward beyond the 140th meridian, and therefore the possibility of the Ross and Weddell Seas being connected demands attention. Again, we have been able many glaciological studies, and my geological studies will demon strate that the great mountain ranges which take their rise far away on the western side of the Ross Sea are continued as the major feature of the landscape in a fairly unbroken fashion, certainly as far as the 140th meridian. “ I found sandstone with a layer of highly carbonacious material. This lam sure is beacon sandstone. I had to climb up 6000 feet to reach the cap rocks on Mount Nansen. From a distance I thought that they were all volcanic rocks. No symphonies I have heard ever gave me quite the thrill that I had when I reached out after this tremendous climb and picked up a rock to find it sandstone. Here was what I had come all the way to the Antarctic to find. Eddie, Mike, and Freddy, who were with me, will tell you.that I even forgot to cuss. Everyone is happy, for we are heading back to you with the feeling that we have done all chat we set out to do, and perhaps a little mo:e.”