THE BYRD EXPEDITION
LOWEST TEMPERATURES YET (Special from Byrd Expedition, by Russell Owen). BAY OF WHALES, Aug. 18. A severe blizzard has been blowing for two days with the lowest barometer yet recorded this trip and one of the lowest ever recorded in the Antarctic. All yesterday the wind whooped round the chimney pipes and ventilators, sometimes exceeding 50 miles an hour, and with drift snow so thick that it shut off all vision as if by a wall. The barometers were down to 27.82 below zero. Few men went over the top between the houses, preferring the tunnel. The only way to steer was by occasional glimpses of the eloud-covered moon and the direction of the wind.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 197, 20 August 1929, Page 7
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