ACROSS THE SOUTH POLE

Taranaki Daily News, 8 September 1934, Page 9

ACROSS THE SOUTH POLE

framework for mapping LAST GREAT PIONEER FLIGHT. MR. LINCOLN ELLSWORTH'S PLAN. WEDDEL SEA TO THE ROSS SEA. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. Mr. Lincoln Ellsworth, the Polar explorer, arrived by the Mariposa to-day and will leave Dunedin" by the Wyatt Earp for the Antarctic towards the end of this month. "This flight will be the last I shall undertake,” he said. “If it succeeds I shall rest content with having been the first man to fly across both the north and south polar regions. I think of my flight merely as a voyage of discovery. Tire best I can hope to accomplish is to construct a framework consisting of the general features along the route; it will remain for future explorers to fill in the details. It is the only great pioneer flight left to be made.” On his former trip he proposed to fly from the Ross Sea to the Weddel Sea and back. This time he proposed to fly from Deception Island 600 miles south of Cape Hom, across the Antarctic Continent from the Weddel Sea to the Ross Sea.

At the Ross Sea he would establish a camp and await the Wyatt Earp, which would have to travel 2850 miles from Deception Island to pick him up. The personnel of the expedition would be the same as before with the exception of Dr. Y. Cowan, who arrived to-day to be medical officer.