SECOND POLAR YEAR

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18807, 20 February 1931, Page 2

SECOND POLAR YEAR

AMERICAN PLANS OUTLINED. United Press Association—By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright WASHINGTON. February 18. The Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives, favourably voted on a resolution authorising an appropriation for the participation of the United States with 26 other nations in the “Second Polar Year,” in which, from August 1, 1932, to August 31, 1933, the participating countries, through nearly 50 stations, plan to gather information regarding the elements surrounding the earth, especially off the polar extremities. Byrd’s Little America is expected to be re-occupied for meteorological, electrical and magnetic research. It is understood that the proposal for such re-occupation comes from New Zealand, where the proposed station will be established by the Norwegian whalers. The United States will probably equip and man stations at Fairbanks, Alaska and Refuged Harbour, Greenland; the Argentina at New Year’s Island; France in the south Indian Ocean; Brazil in the South Polar regions; Russia in the Arctic, and others at various points throughout the globe. “The first polar year" so-called was in 1882, when the leading nations joined in similar work.