Evening Star Newspaper, May 4, 1930, Page 119

D. C.—GRAVURE SECTION—MAY 4. Lk view along the barrier wall from the west cape. It was taken during the Antarctic Summer and shows ater in the Bay of Whales. Henry T. Harrison, meteorologist, the man who fell over the edge of the barrier when it broke and clung to a rope for 10 minutes before he was pulled up. The Samson of Little America. Sverre Strom, Norwegian sailor, sealer and ice pilot, was the strongest man with the expedition. Everybody was fond of “Big Snoose.” bs around the mess-hall table. Thousands of miles from s music and entertainment. Capt. A. C. McKin- ley, aerial surveyor on the polar flight, shoot- 1 1 s J‘:kdgmm"h""m'_' Admiral Byrd (at left) and other members ing as tripod. of the expedition looking over furs for outfit- ting the Southern sledging parties. Dana Coman, doctor, whose beard was the wonder among all the fine growths sported at Little America. Nobody knew him when he cut it off. Chris Braathen, dog driver, sailor and member of the supporting South- ern party, with his piratical beard. Building a house of snow blocks to shelter supplies against the high-drifting snows of the Ant- arctic Winter. The supplies are seen in the background. \/ % N N7\ NI | > A <o » Carl Petersen, radio operator, working at his key in the radio - - = room. Petersen, whose dots and dashes kept the world in touch The Ford snowmobile emerging from its Winter burial. When Spring came no part of it was with the expedition, also served at the Spitzbergen base for Ad- visible under the drifted snow. The machine had to be abandoned 80 miles south of Little America, miral Byrd's North Pole flight. when it broke down on a trip.