ICE CRUISE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17410, 7 November 1930, Page 8

ICE CRUISE

IN DECEMBER HEALTH TOUR LONDON, Oct. 26. At least one woman will accompany Commander Stonliouse in his Antarctic cruiser Stella Polaris fo the Ross Seattle first Antarctic tourist cruise—in December. Commander Stonliouse told a press representative that he expects to reach Auckland, via Panama, on January 25. He will sail tho next day for tho Ross Sea, via Campbell Island, going to King Edward VII Land and calling at tbo Bay of Whales and Amundsen’s and Byrd’s bases and Discovery Inlet, skirting the Great Ice Barrier, going in to McMurdo Sound to see iScotl’s and Shaekleton’s huts, and landing on the barrier at the. Bay of Whales. ‘‘Mr. Henry Ford asked me to bring hack the engines of Admiral Byrd's monoplane, which lie was compelled to abandon last summer,” said Commander Steiihonse. ‘‘l hope to induce Don Bradman fo come south with us and have a go at stonewalling with emperor penguins on tho Ice Barrier, or Kingsford Smith to take up passengers and see the Barrier from the air.” He added that the Antarctic was the world's greatest health resort. At least one explorer lost his consumption there. Tho Stella Polaris will reach Hobart on February 19, Sydney on February 28, and thence go via Java, India, and the Suez (o home.

Commander Worsley, a New Zealander, also a Norwegian whaling expert and a number of women, including Dorothy, Countess of Lanesborough, are going to see whales electrocuted, the latest, method of slaughter which is being successfully tried out in the Ross Sea. Tho minimum fare for the cruise will be £SOO.

The Stella. Polaris is a motor ship of 5020 gross tonnage, which was built as a tourist ship in 1927. She is a “luxury ship,” and was the first to he propelled by internal-combustion engines. Commander Stenhou.se was a member of Sir Ernest Sliackleton’s expedition to the Antarctic.