New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 11, 1929, Page 11

J, WILKINS FINISHES FIRST EXPLORING Wil Sal for Home From| Amarcn'c Regions Having completed the first phase of the Wilkins-Hearst expedition’s | work in the Antarctic. Captain Sir | Hubert Wilkins announces in a radio message to “The New York Ameri- can” and associated Hearst news- papers that he will return to _\mf'r-; ica and prepare for the seccond! phase, which will be carried on next | year from a different buse. The annoyncement was made fol- lowing a new five-hundred mile flight made on Wednesday, during | which Captain Wilkins searched | Graham Land in the hope of finding a suitable and more southerly base | which would enable him to continue | his explorations farther south throughout the present scason. No such base could be found. | In making public Captain Wilkins' | decision, “The New York American” added the following analysis of the situation: “The only alternative hope of reaching Ross Sea this season lay in ability to take off on skis with a| load of gasoline sufficient to drive | a plane cighteen hundred miles, Ow- ing to the unseasonably warm weather at Deception Islund and ;| Graham Land, which las softened the snow weeks before it was ex- pected to do =0, this was obviously | fimpossible. | “RBut even if the snow and ice ]M(]’ heen mormal the discoveries as 1o the ferrain of Graham Land made | by Coptain Wilking preciuded the| possibility of xuch flight without un- reagonable risk. It remuined only | for Captain Wilkins to return and | make a new start from a new base, “The expedition had two major S| ~ Exploration of Graham nd the western coust of Wed- dell Sea hy airplane. “Second -~ A flight from Graham nd to Ross Sea and further ex- tion from a base established : from Reception Tsland n Land Sie Hubert and his associales have accomplished the first objectives and thereby solved the greategt problem th:t has con- fronted, scientists and gecgraphers in the Antarctic “Graham Land Is pictured on fhe miaps of the Antarctic continent. Flying 1,200 miles over land never lefore secn by human cyes in com pany with Pilot Ben 1ii-lson on Te cember Wilkins discovered that iraham Land consists of 1wo main | nds and that the southernmost is separated from the Anfarctic conti- nent by a hody of water 40 to hf miles wide, lying between the 7T0th and 7st parallel south and lonegi- tude 60 and 70 west. This he has| since named Stefansson Strait. “The northern Tsland has been re- named North Graham Island, and the southern, South Graham Island, the two being separated by a narrow crooked strait. | “On he 65th parallel south, or within 100 miles of the Antarctic Circle, Wilkins found the coast of North Graham Island cut by inden- tations so deep that they almost met, | threatening to sever it into &till an- other island. These identations he named the Hettoria Fiords. “A group of six islands discovered | southeast of South Graham Island Tie has named Finley Islands in hon- | or of Dr. H. Finley, president of the American Geographical soclety, which sponsored the expedition. | “Captain Wilkins established what | he believes to be the true edge of | the Antarctic continent on approxi- | mately the 70th parallel south. 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Various mountains, plateaus, gla-| ciers and other geographical fea- tures were named for different per- sons whom Wilkins desired to hon- “By the very nature of his discov- | eries Sir Hubert is prevented from | pursuing the second phase of his | work during the present season. *“All his plans were predicated up- | on the Antarctic map as it was sup- posed to exist. “If Graham Land were a part of | the Antarctic continent he might | with a sufficient load of gasoline fly | from Deception Island to Ross Sea, | most of the distance over land. If| | forced dawn by engine trouble, he and Eiclson, his pilot would then ! have a chance to survive by walking to Ros | “With Graham Land a serics of islands, as Wilkins' exploration has demonstrated it to be, this became | impossible. A failing engine which | might force & landing on one of the | islands meant isolation without hope of rescue and inevitable death. “Ry his flight concluded yesterday Sir Hubert Wilkins has not only verified his earlier observations, but cleared the way for the esablish- ment of a more southerly base next year." | PICTURE BEASTS OF ANCIENT TIMES Many New Britainites Hear, Lecture by Famous Explorer Between 75 and 100 New Britain men and women attended the lecture | by Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews, | sciontist and explorer, in Hartford | list evening under the auspices of | the Hartford Engineers’ club. This | while bearing the name of | ford is in reality a county wide | ization and draws miuch of ifs | v 1,500 membership from New | in. M. G. Bteele, chicf enginecr | for the & Hutchison Co.. of | this_cit president and presided | last. evenin, | Dr. Andrews illustrated his lec- ture with motion pictures, showing | thrilling and romantic adventures | mingled with nerve testing and heart | breaking hardships in the Gobi | desert and other parts of Mongolia. | The pictures graphically illustrated | the experiences of the exploring | P from the time it left Peking, | 7 its return through the Great Wall months later. The motor caravan, the camel train, sand storms in the desert, suf- fering from lack of water and food, | tiaveling under conditions which | would be accepted in a civilized | country as impossible. Probably the most thrilling part [of the lecture for the audience, as| the real experiences were to the ex- | plorer, was the finding of bones of prehistoric animals in the Gobi desert. Bones of baluchisterium, titanothere, mammoths and other | colossal beasts as well as those of | the dinosaur and reptiles which have passed beyond the pale of man's memory for anywhere from 60 to 100 | million years, not only were pictured, | but the actual scenes of digging them out of the sand were shown. | One skeleton, that of a titanothere, | was 0 large it required five men to | lift a single leg bone. Reconstruted pictures of these creatures tn the days when they roamed the earth, getting their food from the tops of trees or scooping it from the bottom of rivers, depend- ing upon the nature of the beast, provoked much interest. Photo- | graphs of complete dinosaur skele- tons and dinosaur ezgs were shown. 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