“SECOND POLAR YEAR”
COMPREHENSIVE RESEARCH. AN AMERICAN SUGGESTION. (United Press Associate in.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) WASHINGTON, February 18. The House of Foreign Affairs Committee favourably voted on a resolution authorising appropriation for participation by the United States with 20 other nations in “ a second polar year,” in which from August 1, 19.82, to August 31, 1933, the participating countries, through nearly 50 stations, plan to gather information regarding the elements surrounding the earth, especially off the polar extremities. Admiral Byrd’s Little America is expected to be reoccupied for meteorological, electrical and magnetic research. It is understood that the project for such reoccupation■ comes from New Zealand, where the proposed station will be established by Norwegian whalers. The United States will probably equip and man stations at Fairbanks (Alaska), Refuge Harbour (Greenland); Argentina at New Year’s Island; France in the South Indian Ocean; Brazil in the south polar regions; Russia in the Arctic; and the others at Various points throughout the globe.
"The first polar year,” so-called, was in 1882, when leading nations joined in similar work.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21265, 20 February 1931, Page 9
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