LARSEN EXPEDITION.
LOSES ALL EQUIPMENT. BJDSCUED BY WHALER. OSLO, March 11. A relative has received a telegram that the Larsen expedition has lost all its equipment. Sixty sledge dogs were drowned in a violent gale. A Norwegian whaler rescued the expedition. (Captain Riiser Larsen set out early this year with two companions and three dofe teams on an adventurous sledge journey along the Atlantic sector of the South Pole cap. He hoped to discover new territory and to solve the problem of the great “gulf” between Queen Maud's Land and Princess Ragnhild’s Land. In the early part of last year, Captain Larsen reported that during the flight of the seaplane attached to the Norwegian expedition new land was traced from 70 degrees 30 minutes south, 24 degrees 15 minutes east, to 68 degrees 40 minutes south, 33 degrees 30 minutes east. The Norwegian flag was dropped over the land with occupation documents, this establishing possession by Norway. It was named Princess Ragnhild’s Land, after the Norwegian baby princess. The new part of the coast line appeared to be about 500 miles southwest of Enderby Land, and in one of the least regions of the Antarctic.)
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Wairarapa Age, 14 March 1933, Page 7
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