EXPEDITION SHIP
MESSAGE FROM WYATT EARP VESSEL EXPECTED SHORTLY. The motor ship Wyatt Earp, formerly the Fanefjord, which will carry the Lincoln Ellsworth Transatlantic Flight Expedition to southern latitudes, is nearing the completion of her 20,000 mile voyage from Norway to New Zealand, by way of Durban. The vessel has been within range of the Awarua wireless station for the past two days, and on Tuesday Mr Lincoln Ellsworth, who is in Christchurch, received a message from the ship that told him that all aboard were well, and that she would probably arrive at Port Chalmers on November 10, the scheduled date. Mr Ellsworth is expected to arrive in Dunedin next Tuesday to await the Wyatt Earp, and will supervise! the work that has to be done here. As early in December as possible the ship will leave for the Roas Sea. Captain Baard Holt, her, master, is an old Antarctic whaler, and Mr Ellsworth has every confidence that he will take her through the Ice ns early as a passage is possible.
The ship will make for the Great Ice Barrier, and on the first day on which the weather is suitable the Northrop aeroplane will be landed by a special boom which has been fitted to the ship, and Mr Ellsworth and Mr Berat Balcheh will take off for their non-stop flight to the Weddell Sea and. back—3ooo miles. The flight, if successful, will solve' the last great geographical riddle —whether the Antarctic is one continent or two.
Mr Bnlcben was operated on for appendicitis in Capetown, but as his case was not acute Mr Ellsworth expects him to have made a complete recovery before the flight begins. Sir Hubert Wilkins, who will net as a newspaper correspondent, is also on the Wyatt Earp. A Press Association message received from Christchurch last night states that Mr Ellsworth and Mrs Ellsworth will fly to Dunedin on Tuesday, probably with Sir Bruce Stewart. Mr Ellsworth does not anticipate being busy all the time he is in Dunedin, for he is already mapping out walks round Otago Harbour.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22100, 2 November 1933, Page 14
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347EXPEDITION SHIP Otago Daily Times, Issue 22100, 2 November 1933, Page 14
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