BYRD EXPEDITION
SHIP COASTING EASTWARD ALONGSIDE OF ICE PACK (Special to Pi’ess Association.) Byrd Expedition, Dec. 30. Continuing to push eastward to the 120th meridian, the Jacob Ruppert this afternoon coasted along the edge of the main pack ice. Its noon position was 68.42 south, 124.40 west. This morning the ship was five miles north of the record southerly track of the Norwegian ship Norvegia, past which the Jacob Ruppert broke yesterday. Some time during the night apparently undetected currents drifted the Jacob Ruppert to the north although the master was steadily holding a course to the southeast. The first penguin was sighted to-day on a lone floe broken loose from the main pack. Later more were sighted in groups of four or five. Virtually all hands hurried to the rail; their cheers and the barking of the dogs frightened the penguins away, but the crew was the more cheerful at having seen living creatures in this area.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 450, 2 January 1934, Page 4
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