Abstract
Two American expeditions to the antarctic are announced in the Polar Record for July. The Ellsworth expedition has for its object a trans-antarctic flight to discover the nature of the land between the Ross and Weddell Seas. From a base, which it is hoped to establish in the Bay of Whales, Ross Barrier, in December, it is proposed to fly to the south of the Weddell Sea and back, without landing on the way. This flight of 2,900 miles is expected to take ten hours. The expedition does not expect to spend more than a week at its base and is not to winter. On the other hand, Admiral R. E. Byrd proposes to winter in the south, taking with him a large number of dogs and several motor tractors besides an aeroplane. His expedition will have a personnel of about forty and is planned to sail this autumn. Details are not yet announced but the plans include a flight to the south pole and exploratory work to the east of the Ross Sea.
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New Antarctic Expeditions. Nature 132, 346 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132346a0
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