GOULD RETURNS WITH MUCH DATA.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18959, 4 January 1930, Page 1

GOULD RETURNS WITH MUCH DATA.

MOUNT NANSEN NOT OF VOLCANIC ORIGIN. BY RUSSELL OWEN. Copyrighted. 182 S, by the “New York Times ” Company and “St Louis Post-Dlspatcli.” All Rights for Publication Reserved throughout the World. Wireless to “ New York Times.” (Received January 4, 10 a.m.) BAY OF WHALES, January 3. Unshaven since they left Little America, the Gould party are plodding back to the base with important records. “We have roughly charted 150 miles of the Queen Maud Range.” said Professor Gould in a radio message, lie added: “We have demonstrated that there is no Cafmen Land, but that the range extends eastward-beyond the 140th meridian and therefore that the possibility of the Ross and Weddell Seas being connected demands attention again. We have been able to make many glaciological studies, and my geolological studies will demonstrate that the great mountain rangeswhich take their rise far away on the western side of the Ross Sea are continued as the major feature of the landscape in a fairly unbroken fashion, certainly as far the 140th meridian. Capping Mount Nansen I did find sandstone, with a layer of highly carbonaceous material. This, I am sure, is beacon sandstone. I had to climb up 6000 feet to reach those cap rocks on Nansen. From a distance I had thought that they were all volcanic rocks. There are no symphonies I have ever heard that ever gave me quite the thrill that I had when I reached out after this tremendous climb and picked up a rock to find it was sandstone. Here was what I had come all the way to the Antarctic to find. Eddie, Mike and Freddy, who were with me, will tell you that I even forgot to cuss. Everyone is happy, for we are heading back to you with the feeling that we have done all we have set out to do, and, perhaps, a little more.”