MISSION TO QUEEN MAUDE RANGE
TRACTORS CANNOT BE USED BYRD EXPEDITION . Press Association —Copyright 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 M. Blackburn's geological party to proceed to Queen Maude Range independently, using dog teams in order to carry cut the orig'Jial mission. Mr. Morgan's plateau party, which intends to take seismic soundings to determine the thickness of the continental ice sheet, was ordered to consolidate with the tractor unit and proceed eastward to the unexplored r.rea.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume III, Issue 197, 9 November 1934, Page 5
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