ANTARCTIC BLIZZARD
RAGES ROUND THE HOUSES OF BYRD EXPEDITION BY RUSSELL OWEN Copyrighted, 1928, by tlie "New York Times” company and the St. Louis “PostDispatch.’’ All rights for publication reserved throughout the world. Wireless to the “New York Times.” BAY OF WHALES, Saturday. A severe blizzard has been blowing for two days, and we have had the lowest barometer reading yet recorded on this trip and one of the lowest ever known in the Antarctic, All day yesterday the wind raged round our chimney-pipes and ventilators, sometimes exceeding 50 miles an hour. The drift snow was so thick that it shut off our vision as if it were a wall. Today the barometer is down to 27.52. Few members of the Byrd expedition ventured out between our houses. They preferred the tunnel, for the only w-ay to steer oneself out of doors was by occasional glimpses of the cloud-covered moon and by the direction of the wind.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 746, 20 August 1929, Page 9
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