BYRD WAITING FOR SHIPS

Taranaki Daily News, 31 January 1930, Page 11

BYRD WAITING FOR SHIPS

EXPLORATION OF BARRIER. (G'opyright —By Ruesell Owen.) . Rec. 11.15. Bay of Whales, Jan., 29. While waiting, for the ships some of the final work is being done in investigating the tremendous chasms and ice gorges (for they are much more than crevaeees). South-west of the Bay of Whales there, are inlets and ice-walled openings in the barrier running west for nearly forty miles and probably caused by the barrier being forced over submerged land. " - Captain McKinley, with Doctor Gould, the geologist, and Captain Parker, the pilot, flew over them and photographed them with a 20-inch lens camera. They obtained pictures that show these remarkable formations; huge canyons, their white floors covered, with a jumbled and broken mace of ice and great fissures running off from them, their edges fringed with graceful, overhanging cornices of snow. Every evidence is given of overpowering forces. There are many openings in the bottom of these gorges and to-day the sledging party went out to sound through such holes as they could reach and obtain records of the depth of the water, Balclen, Strom, Braathen and Crockett, who took with him a radio set,. composed the party. They were to have started yesterday, but a blizzard which came up the night before and lasted until last night held them in camp. To-day, however, the sky is partly clear with a cool wind from the south.