SOUTH AGAIN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18589, 27 December 1934, Page 10

SOUTH AGAIN

BYRD’S TWO SHIPS

LEADER OUTLINES FLANS

The Bear of Oakland will, sail from Dunedin for'the Bay of . Whales on Thursday, followed by the Jacob Ruppert about January 12. In explaining plans for the trip, Lieut. R.iA. .1. English said that if improved to be a gooduiqe year and, the ice pack was negotiable for the Jacob Ruppert, the Bear would not,proceed directly to Little!America, but would lay a course for McMurdo Sound, and would then follow' the nce barrier . eastward .to pUe ba£e.. .The expedition’s scientists would then chart the Ross barrier'oh the way. This, had been carried out only three times previously, by Ross in JB4O, and by Scott in IGO2 and 1910, and would enable the vice .movement to be determined- In acldition ; a constant line of soundings would be run .along, the barrier, .and 1 samples would be obtained from the sea" bottom for tbe use’ of the biologists. » s •' b.r?* Should:that plan not be practicable,' on account cf thick pack ice, the .Jacob Ruppert would .wait outside the pack, and the Rear would ferry .nipn, dogs, cows and scientific records to her. If the latter course were adopted, it would he necessary to leavo the tractors and aeroplanes on the jee, as the Bear would be,unable to,carry them. ,

When tlie expedition sails there will he .16 New Zealanders in the', crews of the two'vessels. ‘ ,

i Penguins are birds peculiar to soul Item latitudes,'none‘being known iri the northern hemisphere, and a attempt is therefore to be made to carry' a number back to tlm United States for museums and zoos. Special arrangements have been made aboard the Jacob Ruppert for the accommodation of the birds, ,and an ice room lias been adapted to their use. Both air and water will lie artificially ,cooled, end maintained, at the norma] temperature of the Antarctic climate, and it is hoped that, the birds will survive the voyage through the tropics.