Abstract
ONE of the major problems of the antarctic, the relation between the Ross Sea and the Weddell Sea, is the objective of the Ellsworth expedition which has sailed for the Ross Sea in the Wyatt Earp. The sole aim of Mr. L. Ellsworth and Mr. B. Balchen is to fly from the Bay of Whales, early in January, across to the Wilhelm Barrier in the south of the Weddell Sea on a course that will take them within about four hundred miles of the pole on the Pacific side. The Geographical Journal of November gives some details of the expedition. No landing will be made in the Weddell Sea and the party will return at once to the base. The double journey of a total of 2,900 miles should be made in about twenty hours. A Northrop low-wing monoplane has been built for the flight and tested in Canada and Norway. It is not contemplated that more than a week will be spent in the Ross Sea, though a year's supplies are being carried.
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Ellsworth Antarctic Expedition. Nature 132, 961 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132961a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/132961a0