PLANS FOR THE SPRING
THE BYRD EXPEDITION A LONG TRACTOR TRIP LITTLE AMERICA, September 13. (Received Sept. 14, at 8.5 p.m.) Among the projects planned for this spring, for which the expedition is making ready, is a long tractor trip towards the Edsel Ford Range to the eastward to lay a sub-base for a flight which may be attempted before the month is out. The senior meteorologist plans to leave the camp shortly on a swing around Amundsen Arm, taking seismic soundings of the ocean bottom in an attempt to discover if the barrier is grounded here and explain the baffling problem of how the Bay of Whales maintains its conformation in tins inconstant ice front. Trail, parties will carry the scientists to the Edsel Ford and Queen Maude ranges during October.
The autogiro has already made a series of flights at an altitude of 10,000 feet, and will make others in the interests of meteorological findings.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22368, 15 September 1934, Page 13
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