ANTARCTIC RESEARCH
THE BYRD EXPEDITION SCIENTISTS ’ PRO J ECTS LITTLE AMERICA, Sept. 13. Among tho projects planned for this spring for vihTch tho expedition is making ready, is a long tractor trip towards tho Edsel Ford range to the east ward, to lay a sub-base for a flight which may be attempted before the month is out. The senior meteorologist, Mr. Morgan, plans to leave the camp shortly and go around Amundsen Arm, taking seismic soundings of the ocean bottom, in an attempt to discover if the barrier is grounded there, and tp explain the baffling problem of how tho Bay of Whales • maintains its conformation in this inconstant ice. Trail parties will carry 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 ft., and will inako others in tho interests of meteorological findings.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18503, 15 September 1934, Page 5
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