POLAR EXPLORATION
BYRD EXPEDITION’S ACTIVITIES. (United Press Assn—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 7 p.m.) Little America, Nov. 7. Because the tractor’s advance to Queen Maude Range is blocked by an impenetrable belt of pressure ridges and crevasses, Rear-Admiral Byrd ordered Mr Blackburn’s geological party to proceed to Queen Maude Range independently, using dog teams, in order to carry out the original mission. Mr Morgan’s plateau party, which intends to take seismic soundings to determine the thickness of the contintental ice sheet, was ordered to consolidate with the tractor unit and proceed eastward to the unexplored area.
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Southland Times, Issue 22474, 9 November 1934, Page 7
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94POLAR EXPLORATION Southland Times, Issue 22474, 9 November 1934, Page 7
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