Major Tryggve Gran, the Norwegian explorer who criticised Commander Byrd’s messages from Antarctica, declared that the Great Ice Plateau, which Byrd described as rough and mountainous, was really a plane, over which, except for some depressions and projections, a motorcyclist could travel. The photographs shown above were taken by members of Scott’s Expedition. One shows a panorama from Discovery Bluff, looking up the Mackay Glacier. The most prominent peak to the left is named Mount Tryggve Gran. Below is a photograph taken from Mount Guess, on the Polar Plateau, showing stupendous cliffs 2000 feet high.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18936, 5 December 1929, Page 10
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95Major Tryggve Gran, the Norwegian explorer who criticised Commander Byrd’s messages from Antarctica, declared that the Great Ice Plateau, which Byrd described as rough and mountainous, was really a plane, over which, except for some depressions and projections, a motorcyclist could travel. The photographs shown above were taken by members of Scott’s Expedition. One shows a panorama from Discovery Bluff, looking up the Mackay Glacier. The most prominent peak to the left is named Mount Tryggve Gran. Below is a photograph taken from Mount Guess, on the Polar Plateau, showing stupendous cliffs 2000 feet high. Star (Christchurch), Issue 18936, 5 December 1929, Page 10
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