DECEPTION ISLAND BASE

Taranaki Daily News, 31 January 1934, Page 9

DECEPTION ISLAND BASE

NEW ANTARCTIC FLIGHT PLAN ELLSWORTH CONSIDERS SCHEME. MAY BE ABOUT NEXT NOVEMBER. EXTENT OF QUEEN MAUDE RANGE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night. Mr. Lincoln Ellsworth is already thinking of making another attempt to reach unexplored regions in the Antarctic continent. This time if his hopes materialise, he ‘ informed a reporter to-night, a flight will be made from Deception Island, south of Cape Horn, using that point as a base. He will fly to the Weddell Sea and then turn his plane due south and head for Little America. Once there he will be picked up by the Wyatt Earp. But until Mr. Ellsworth reaches Los Angeles nothing definite can be settled. By the end of the first week in March he will know where the final attempt to reach his goal in the Antarctic will be made. If all goes well the Polar Star will rise into the air about the beginning of November and head for the extreme edge of the Weddell Sea. At the end of a flight of 1250 miles the plane will be headed due' south with its real journey before it, a flight of 1450 miles across the gap which divides the Ross and the Weddell Seas. This Will be the most hazardous part of the journey. At the end of the flight the explorer wifi, know whether the two seas are linked and whether the Queen Maude range ends abruptly, or whether it stretches far across the Antarctic Continent.