Evening Star Newspaper, February 21, 1929, Page 4

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F Street at Qth ‘Wool Hose, Silk Neckwear, from display EXPLORED BY (Continued from First Page). flight by Byrd and the other & mapping flight by McKinley, the efficiency of this method of discovery was abundant- ly proved. On the first flight Byrd made to the Scott Nunataks he thought that he saw high land to the east, and on his re- turn he went in that direction and found the Rockefeller Range. At this time also he thought he saw a mountain far to the east. On his next flight that way he again saw this mountain, more clearly this time, and ae known as his “pet mountain” ascination it held for He was sure that high land lay in_that direction. When McKinley flew over that way to map the Rockefeller Range the visi- bility had improved so greatly that he not only saw the commander’s “pet mountain” standing up 8,000 or 10,000 feet, but also a long range to the east- sout Il'm of it which disappeared over the horizon. More Peaks Farther East. Two peaks had elso been sighted due east of the Rockefeller Range, which it must be remembered runs roughly northeast and southwest beginning at t 50 miles south of the peaks which were ap- or farther away than to the southwest, yrd, who penctrated the long stance to the south yesterday, saw t he believed to be high land at act point where Amund- on his trip to the Pole, reported arance of land.” This was about half way between the Bay of Whales and the Axel Heiberg Glacler. can be seen that in almost irection to the east, southeast th from our base, land has ed, with the probability that es and high land extend the cruising- radius of the parently the ne ults so far offer a very hope- ful prospect for next year’s work. Comdr. 4 believes the season is too late for esploration flights now and will confine the aviation work to flights for the recording by aero-mapping of the inte! ng territary near the base and as much as possible of the region penetrated on past trips of exploration. To Capt. McKinley, Dean Smith, the pilot, and Lloyd V. Berkner, the io operator on the mapping flight yesterday, Byrd has given the honor of discovering the new range to the east, although he himself first sighted the highest peak. Was Sare Land Lay There. Nothing could show more perfectly the dramatic character of the unex- pected in Antarctic exploration than the work of yesterday. Discoveries leap upon the aerial adventurer down herc in the course of a few hours. ‘The first flight of the day was planned as a trip to the north of King Edward VII Land, and an attempt to push further in the direction where Comdr. Byrd was turned back by a snowstorm at his first flight. He was convinced, as was Scott, that land ex- isted as the only explanation of the impenatrable ice fleld which lies to the north of us on the eastern side of the Ross Sea. He had gone to the base the night before in the hope of getting off, but the weather became overcast. The in- creasing cold filled the air with particles of ice which caused some beautiful phenomena, As the sun swung down low in the west just opposite the inlet on which the base is situated, the light from it was so diffused that it became a golden flame which filled the sky. From it fell a cataract of gold that splashed on the surface of the bay like an explosion of light. On each side of the sun were arcs like a rainbow and in the center of them just below the line of the sun were mock suns. Over the sun was the lower arc of another rainbow. But the conditions which caused this entrancing effect were such that flying was out of the question. 1 The next morning the weather was perfect over the Barrier, and as soon as the engines were warmed up and the heated oil poured into them, they were started and were soon rring rhvt.h]gn&::ll:;. !hs propellers blowing up clouds of powdery snow. Two planes went on this flight. Comdr. Byrd, with Bernt Balchen and Lloyd Berkner, went in the Virginia, which is the Fokker, and Capt. Alton Parker flew the Stars and Stripes, the Fairchild plane, with Harold June as radio operator. It wa‘;ecnld. 14 below zero, during the hours when the sun was low, and the crews were warmly dressed in furs. The thermometer registered 18 to 20 below during the flight, but it was comfort- able in the cabin and cockpits. Both planes got off ~asily with heavy BYRD CLAIMS ANTARCTIC AREA PLANES FOR U. §. loads and after circling over the camp turned northeast toward the Nunataks, the Virginia leading and Parker in the Stars and Stripes lying just above and to one side. After an hour's flight the planes ran into heavy clouds, which covered the coast and hung across the rout®. They were heavy snow clouds and hung low. Balchen did not think it wise to try to fly under them. He appreciates the dangers of this country. Just before reaching Halflood Bay, named after Byrd's uncle, he directed Balchen to turn to the southeast and fiew on this course until they passed about 15 miles south of the Rockefeller range. The planes were in constant communication with the base and the ship by radio and also with the whalers in the Ross Sea. Honors Whaler’s Captain. Some time ago Byrd had told Capt. Arthur Nilsen of the whaler Larson, which towed him through the ice pack, that he would name a mountain after him and when abreast of the Rockefel- ler range, he sent word to the whaling captain, “He just passed Mount Nil- sen.” He kept on for some distance to the southeast. Byrd’s map was covered with notation of positions, courses and times when ne returned. ‘The navigation in itself with the use of the sun compass and magnetic compass was @ good piece of work because of the many changes in course, and when he set a position for the Bay of Whales after dodging over the waste of Antarc- tiea for hours in various directions he hit the bay just south of Sranheim. Past the Rockefeller range he saw the mountain he had glimpsed once befgge looming up on the horizon and wrote a not to Balchen, “T think I see land to the east, lets try it.” They flew toward the high mountain for some time with- out its getting nearer, and then turned south again. The snow surface of the barrier during the latter part of his flight was at least 1,000 feet above sea level as indicated by the plane =alti- meter, and both Balchen and Byrd were certain that under it was land. The visibility at this distance from the coast was perfect. The snow surface stretched, a glistening white plain, for at least 100 miles or each side, only slight differen in color showing where the snow was soft or packed by the wind to & smooth, hard crust. Waves of- zastruga ran over it in places, and sometimes there would be low but long mounds, but the most part the surface looked as though there had been no movement there for ages. Again Byrd turned. This time to the south. and kept on this course until he had penetrated more than 100 miles be- yond his farthest southern point on former flights. It was on this course that he saw the twin peaks far to the east and the high mountain later seen more plainly by the McKinley party. When they turned again for home they had penetrated so far to the south that another mountain range could be seen plainly far ahead of them, a dark streak on the horizon. This was un- doubtedly the land faintly seen by Amundsen to the east of his Polar route. He passed many rolling hills of snow on the way home, hills indicating land and a few pressure ridg:s. On this one leg of the flight, which was 140 miles from the Bay of Whales, he was able to see at least 100 miles to the south. cov- ering an area of 14,000 square miles of unknown territory. Area Claimed for United States. Both planes landed smoothly at the base after a flight of 4 hours and 15 minutes, the last part of the trip hav- ing been made with a strong tail wind which enabled them to make the 140 miles in about an hour. Although he had been kept from his original objec- tive by the clouds, he had covered about 400 miles and obtained some tantalizing glimpses of new areas to be explored next year, territory which he has claimed for the United States. He does not wish to infringe in any way on the British dependency, and the new inter- land the beginning of which he has seen is well outside the limits of the British claims. He hopes completely to sub- stantiate his claims by further flights. When the planes had returned Mc- Kinley asked permission to make a mapping flight to the northeast along the coast. The tanks of the Fairchild were filled again and, with Dean Smith piloting and Borkner as radio operator, they took off a few hours after Byrd had returned. In the meantime he had traveled back to the New York by dog sled and had ordered the ship out for another attempt to reach the area north of King Edward Land by sea, as the observations from the planes showed that the water close to the barrier was free from ice for a long distance. 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Byrd is much more worried about his men while they are in the air than when he is flying himself. It is possible with this perfect communication by radio to tell when everything on the plane is going well and be sure of keep- ing in touch with their position to know about where they are if they are forced down. He refused to leave the room and ate his supper there, Radio Directs Flights. ‘The plane went up the coast as far as Halflood harbor, where it also met clouds. Inland, however, McKinley could see what he thought were Nuna- taks, for he had never been there be- fore, and he asked permission of Byrd, sitting back in the radio room, to turn to the east, which the commander granted It was fascinating to sit here and see the process by which a plane flying over the bleak interior of Ant- arctica could be controled and guided by a man on a ship already moving out to sea bound on another exploration at- tempt. The closely welted control by radio of the varfous divisions of this expedition would at once make it nota- ble. While Byrd was eating his sup- per and listening to his plane he also knew from messages that the plane was communicating with the Bolling bound south again with another cargo, and with a short-wave station in San Pran- cisco. Such is modern exploration. Nunataks Are Sighted. ‘What McKinley and the others in the plane thought they saw from the dis- tance were Nunataks turned out to be the Rockefellow Rrange., from which could be seen the Alexandra Mountains to the northeast. McKinley made a strip map of the Rockefellers and also sk . hes of the mountains and areas covered during the flight. While flying over the Rockefellers those in the plane could see the new range of mountains more than a hundred miles to the east- southeast, a range headed by a very high peak, with a low peak to the south and what appeared to be a high ridge disappearing into the southeast. There were also indications of other moun- tains on the horizon. Those on the plane estimated the height of the lar- gest peak at 8,000 to 10,000 feet. After mapping this area, the plane re- turned to the coast and an oblique strip map was made of the uncharted coast line northeast of the Bay of Whales. The map was made from the sea at an elevation of 5800 feet ‘While the ship was finding its way out of the bay through the frost smoke caused by the cold wind from the bar- rier striking thi;y_l wanneruew;::fi the ppeared flying a mi over the bay headed back for the base. The flight lasted 5 hours and 40 minutes. ‘The attempt to take the ship North was thwarted by weather conditions, for the smoky fog on the surface wi Jn the selection of every item of equipmentfor the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, absolute dependability was the all-important factor. Simply as a matter of course, therefore, Waterman’s foun- tain pens were supplied to every member. 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