ELLSWORTH EXPEDITION
VESSEL IN ICE PACK SHELTERING FROM SWELL VANCOUVER, November 4. (Received Nov. 5, at 5.5 p.m.) (Copyright.) Aboard the Wyatt Earp. The Ellsworth expedition's vessel is once more nestled in the familiar Antarctic ice pack, sheltered by a snow island from a heavy westerly swell, in which the vessel wallowed for three days. The northern end of Bransfield Strait appears to be blocked by ice. However, the wind is slackening, and the ice is expected to clear soon and leave us a free eastward passage. It is but comparatively early in Jie Antarctic summer season, and at this latitude there are still four hours of darkness nightly, but the sun is rapidly rising higher, and as soon as there is continuous daylight we will begin to look for early favourable weather to start the trans-Antarctic
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22721, 6 November 1935, Page 9
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