Battling his way "northward through seas filled with floating ice, rar Admiral Richard E. Byrd and his Antarctic expedition were to-eay less than 1,000 miles south of Dunedin, Admiral Byrd radioed to the local authorities that the most hazardous Part of his voyage is over.
Local officials and civie organizations are joining with scientific societies in planning a welcome for: the explorer.—Wireless through Wellington, N.Z., Mar. 10, Rear-Admiral Ri Byrd and 42 companions arrived at Dunedir, in South New Zealand, today in the "City of New York' Rear-Admiral Byrd and his. men left their camp in the Bay of Whales, where they had been icebound, on February 19.—Reuter, Discovery Coming Out Too.
Canberra, Mat, Sir Douglas Mavson, with the members of his Antarctic expedition on the Discovery, left. Kerguelen Island for Australia on March 2, As the Antarctic summer closes at the end of March a second visit to the Antarctic coast this year is impossible.
The Discovery IT, the ship lent by the Falkland Islands Government for service with Sir Douglas Maw-son's expedition, left London on December 14 on a three years? voyage for whaling research work in the Antarctic. Commander W. M. Carey is the captain of the Discovery LI and the ship's complement of 50 includes six scientists and seven members of Captain Scott's expedition of 1910-18—Reuter.
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