DEPARTURE FROM POLE
FOUR SOVIET ’PLANES SMALL PARTY REMAINS (By Telegraph—Press Associat'.on—Copyright) Received June 7, 5.5 p.m. MOSCOW, June 6. Four aeroplanes left the North Pole station for the Soviet Arctic Air Expedition's base at Rudolf Island, 550 miles away, leaving behind on the iceflow near the Po’e four men who will remain throughout the winter making meteorological and other observations. Three of the machines, flown by Mazuruk, Vodopianov, and Milokov, with Dr. Schmidt, leader of the expedition, aboard one, arrived at Rudolf Island 5% hours later. The fourth, piloted by Alexiev, landed on the ice in latitude 85 degrees owing to shortage of petrol, which will be flown to him from Rudolf Island.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 134, 8 June 1937, Page 7
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