BYRD EXPEDITION
VESSELS READY TO SAIL. ANTARCTIC POST OFFICE. BOSTON, Monday. Admiral Byrd’s supply ship, Bear of Oakland, underwent its final preparations to-day preparatory to starting for the South Polar regions tomorrow. Foodstuffs and scientific instruments have been placed aboard and the clearance papers have been issued. The expedition ’3 flagship, Paeific Fir, has been renamed Jacob Ruppert, in honour of the New York baseball magnate and brewer, who is one of the expedition’s principal sponsors. Admiral Byrd will leave on the Jacob Ruppert in about a week. He expects to overtake the Bear of Oakland long before she reaches the base at Dunedin, the voyage to which is expected to require about two months. According to dispatches from Washington, the Post Office Department announced that a post office will be established in Antarctica called “Little America.” This is one of the first official acts recognising the territory explored by Admiral Byrd as a United States possession.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 26 September 1933, Page 3
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