THE BYRD EXPEDITION

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 497, 29 October 1928, Page 15

THE BYRD EXPEDITION

GIGANTIC ENTERPRISE FILMED FOR ALL THE WORLD TO SEE With what is now described as the most elaborate party of exploration, that the world has ever seen. Com - mander Richard Byrd, the famous explorer, has now' set out on his Antarctic expedition. From the start to the finish this trreat drama of the frozen South will be filmed by two intrepid Paramount cameramen who ai;e now on board the City of New York, bound for Dunedin. One will remain at the main base at the Bay of Whales, the other will push on toward the Pole with Byrd. He will secure pictures of their progress from the air and the land. After the two years of labour the world should see one of the most astounding and dramatic films ever screened.

Included in the expedition are 70 men and 75 dogs. They are prepared to travel 20,000 miles, build a village in a frozen continent, roam over some 4,600,000 square miles of unknown territory for a year and a-half. Almost incidental is their purpose of flvina over the South Pole. y *

The first boat to leave on the expedition was the City of New York It carries the three airplanes that will bo used in the exploration work and all the explorers and supplies. Commander Richard Byrd himself with a small party, left on the whaler C. A. Larsen, in the middle of September. Both ships are expected in New Zealand during November.

Here the third ship Chelsea joins the flotilla, and then proceeds the 2,300 miles across the Southern ocean to Ross Sea and the Bay of Whales After the base in the Bay of Whales is established, the ships will with draw for ten months to escape tlie leng Arctic night. In the autumn J>r 1923 they will return to pick uT the expedition. * uc It may not be possible to include nil Of the expedition in one film in which side* U H ' VUI b ? &PUt Up two' Besides being of extraordinary interest to tho world, the pictures according to Commander Byrd, will be of inestimable scientific value.