HEAT IN ANTARCTICA.
UNSEASONABLE THAW. United Press Assn, —Elec. Tel, Copyright, NEW YORK, Deo. 18. A wireless message from the Byrd Antarctic Expedition at Little America, slates:—
A “heat wave’’ struck Little America to-day, the temperature reaching 37 degrees above zero. An unseasonable thaw started the ice in the Bay of Whales moving seaward and seals vanished deeper into the ice paok to avoid the killer whales which roam the cold waters in the packs. According 'to a wireless message to the camp, the tractor and sledging parties met on December 16 on a plateau in Scotland, 150 miles to the eastward. They are proceeding to the camp together.
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Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19455, 20 December 1934, Page 9
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109HEAT IN ANTARCTICA. Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19455, 20 December 1934, Page 9
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