Antarctic Coincidence.
A packing case \fcas sighted on an ice floe by the look-out of the Royal research ship Discovery 11. while the vessel was on her course, skirting the ice pack, from the Falkland Islands to New Zealand. It is assumed that this must have been put on the ice by the Byrd expedition during the operation of unloading the aeroplane and subsequently washed to sea. The area in which the floe was passed is probably one of the most remote on the surface of the great expanse of the Southern Ocean, and the fact that it should have passed close to the Discovery 11. forms a coincidence almost without parallel in the annals of Antarctic navigation.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20221, 3 February 1934, Page 12
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118Antarctic Coincidence. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20221, 3 February 1934, Page 12
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