GREENLAND ICE CAP
A BRITISH EXPEDITION . DELAYED BY HEAVY STORMS. (Copyright—Aboard the Gertrud Rask.) . LONDON, May 7. (Received May 7, at-11.30 p.m.) Heavy storms delayed Lieutenant Martin' Lindsay’s British Arctic expedition which is to attempt a sledge journey of 800 miles across the Greenland' ice cap. The- Gertrud Rask is a steamer of 400 tons and is conveying the party to the West Greenland coast. She struck pack ice 80 miles south of- Egedesminde, where she should have arrived six days ago. High winds blew her 50 miles off her course.—Times Gable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22256, 8 May 1934, Page 7
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