ADMIRAL BYRD’S PLANS
ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION REQUEST FOR APPROPRIATION WASHINGTON, June 8. (Received June 9, at 0.5 a.m,) Admiral ’ Byrd informed, the House Sub-committee, which iis studying the appropriation request for an Antarctic expedition, that portions of Antarctica falling in the western hemisphere would come under the Monroe Doctrine and only 575 nautical miles separate Palmer Land from South America. He added that the expedition, for which a preliminary appropriation of 340,000 dollars was being asked, would ultimately cost 1,000,000 dollars. The expedition will include three ships and a personnel of 200, and would probably leave on October 1 and return in six months, although it would carry supplies for two years.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23830, 9 June 1939, Page 9
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