NEWS OF BYRD
RUPPERT’S COMMANDER. RETURN TO UNITED STATES. Received April 6, 7.10 p.m. NEW YORK, April 5. Commander Gjcrtson, reterned from New Zealand to-day, bringing the first personal information to the Byrd headquarters here of the progress of the expedition previously to his departure with the Jacob Ruppert from Little America. Ho described the difficulties of unloading supplies at the icc barrier, and the aerial explorations that had proved that some 200,000 square miles of the area between King Edward VII. and Graham’s Land was ice-covered ocean. He said that when he saw RearAdmiral Byrd on February 6, Byrd was in splendid physical condition. “It is just as well, because seven months’ isolation in a small hut at tho advanced. base calls for great physical resistance as well as the undaunted courage which the Admiral possesses.” Captain Gjertscn is proceeding home to Norway for a vacation, and is returning to Little America in the autumn to evacuate, the expedition.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 82, 7 April 1934, Page 9
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