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TRACTOR JOURNEY TO BYRD FAILS By Radio—Special to Press Association— From the Byrd Antarctic Expedition
'Received July 26, 8.15 p.m.) LITTLE AMERICA, July 25. The tractor party returned safely to camp here on Tuesday night. [A party of five with a tractor left Little America for the Bolling Advance Weather Base to relieve Rear-Admiral Byrd, after his four months of isolation. Two meteor observers, Mr Carl Peterson, the veteran Antarctic explorer, and Mr Bernard Fleming, of New Zealand, would occupy the hut until October. Admiral Byrd was to return with the tractor. He was reported to be suffering from an injured arm, but he had not indicated whether it was serious. The party left at 2.29 last Friday afternoon for the Bolling Advance Base, and by 1.30 on Sunday morning 1 d made its way to the Fifty-Mile depot, but was no longer able to piv : up the flag marked trail leading southward, as many of the markers were covered with snow. As a result it was decided to return to Little America.]
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19862, 27 July 1934, Page 8
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