THE BARRIER PARTY
“SEVENTY-HIGHT CLUB” FORMED.
(By Russell Owen, Copyrighted 1929 by the New York Times Company and the. St. Louis Post-Despatch.) (All right for publication reserved throughout the world.) (Wireless to New York Times.)
(Rec. 11 p.m.) Bay of Whales, May 10. Yesterday was a great day in the camp. We celebrated the commander’s flight to the North Pole with a turkey dinner and formed the Seventy-eight Club. The members are those of the Byrd Expedition who have been north and south of the latitude 78, for both King's Bay and Little America are inside those northern and southern limits. The insignia of the club was drawn by Bernt Balchen and is a circle with the number 78 in the centre, a plane on one side, a Polar bear at the top and a penguin at the bottom.
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Southland Times, Issue 20772, 13 May 1929, Page 5
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