READY FOR RUN NEXT SPRING

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19772, 13 April 1934, Page 9

READY FOR RUN NEXT SPRING

EXPLORING IN FAR SOUTH SUCCESS OF EARLY OPERATIONS United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received April 12. 7 p.m.) MONTREAL, April 11. Little America reports that the main southern party returned there on March 31 from a journey south of 160 nautical miles across the rolling Ice Barrier. The party had been out a month. The journey was accomplished in the traditional manner, behind a sledge drawn by Eskimo huskies. Captain Taylor says that the average temperature was 20 deg. below zero, the coldest temperature recorded being 61 deg. below zero. Several dogs died from exhaustion. The three nine-dog teams carried a total of 59821 b of supplies, and caches of rations, etc., were made every 25 miles in tall snow beacons, connected by flag signs for Admiral Byrd’s run next spring to the Queen Maude Range. The fourth member of the expedition was obliged to drop out owing to a leg injury, and he returned with the tractor party which carried supplies to the advance base. Captain Taylor, in reviewing the cooperation of the dogs and tractors, says: “Although tractors and machines are faster and carry heavier loads, the dog teams are often able to go where the machines cannot, and pass over spots where the tractors break through crevasses.”