TRIP TO ANTARCTIC
VON LUCKNER EXPEDITION. PARTY TO INCLUDE WOMEN. (By Telegraph. Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Friday. Advice received by a resident of Dunedin from a member of the Byrd Antarctic expedition states that an opportunity has been offered to a imited number of adventurous American men and women to accompany Count and Countess Felix von Luckner on the first cruise to Antarctica by way of the South Seas. The expedition wiil leave New York early in November in the Mopelia, a four masted auxiliary vessel of 2500 tons. The yacht will, carry a special Fokker amphibian plane which Captain Alton Parker, who accompanied Commander Byrd on the flight over the Pole, will pilot. The trip to Antarctica will be so timed that the vessel will reach the pack ice when it is broken and scattered, namely, between the latter part of January and the beginning of March. . At Little America the yacht will make fast to the barrier where the women guests will disembark, the first as pioneer representatives of their sex in Antarctica. W ; th the assistance of the guests members of the Byrd expedition on board plan to savage the two aeroplanes left on the barrier by Commander Byrd early last year.
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Waipa Post, Volume 42, Issue 3269, 7 March 1931, Page 5
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