ANOTHER ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION.
NEW ZEALANDER IN COMMAND. (United Press Association—By Electrl* Telegraph—Copyright.) ' LONDON, March 14. Britain is making the next move In Antarctic exploration, says the “Daily Herald.” The leader will be Commander Frank Worsley, who commanded the Endurance and the Quest in Shackleton’s expeditions. Aeroplanes may be included in the equipment. The object of the expedition will be both commercial and scientific. The cost will be about £25,000.
(Commander Frank Worsley, who has many wonderful sailing feats to his credit, is a native of Christchurch. When the Endurance was crushed by the ice in 1914, he navigated an open boat from Elephant Island to South Georgia, a distance of nearly 2000 miles in the roughest ocean in the world. He served with distinction during the war, commanding at various times two mystery ships, one gunboat and one monitor. He was master of the Quest, on which Sir Ernest Shackleton died in 1923. and also commanded the brigantine Island, which carried the British Arctic Expedition of 1926. Another New Zealander, Lieutenant Gordon Burt, was engineer of the Island.]
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18519, 17 March 1930, Page 11
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178ANOTHER ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18519, 17 March 1930, Page 11
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