BYRD EXPEDITION.
Commander Gjertsen in New York. NEW YORK, April 5. Commander Gjertsen returned from New Zealand to-day, bringing the first personal information to Byrd headquarters here of the progress of the expedition previous to his departure with the Jacob Ruppert from Little America..* He described the difficulties of unloading the supplies at the ice-barrier, and the aerial explorations that proved that some 200,000 square miles of area between King Edward VII. Lapd and Grahams Land was ice-covered ocean. He said that when he saw Admiral Bvrd in February 6, Byrd was in splendid physical condition. “It is just as well because seven months' isolation in a small hut at the advanced base will call for great physical resistance as well as undaunted courage which the Admiral possesses,” he said. Commander Gjertsen is proceeding to his heme in Norway for a vacation, returning to Little America in the autumn to evacuate the expedition.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20274, 7 April 1934, Page 1
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