ANTARCTIC ADVENTURE AND RESEARCH 



estimated to be about latitude 71° 20' S. and longitude 

 64° 15' W. 



On the return they met with south winds at first, 

 then winds from the east, and then they entered a calm 

 belt. They landed safely at Deception Island after an 

 epoch-making journey of 600 miles each way, the whole 

 being accomplished in ten hours. A flight of 250 miles 

 on January loth, 1929, confirmed the data obtained in 

 the northern portion of their earlier flight. In Decem- 

 ber, 1929, Wilkins flew south from his ship over Char- 

 cot Island, and was able to define 300 miles of coast. 

 This is shown approximately on Figure 7. 



Byrd, 1928-30 



On December 25th, 1928, Commander Richard E. 

 Byrd ^ (like Wilkins, famed for his North Polar 

 flights) reached the Ross Ice Shelf with a large expedi- 

 tion prepared to stay two years. He fixed his 

 headquarters near the Bay of Whales but some- 

 what to the east of Framheim. Commander Byrd was 

 supplied with several aeroplanes for which this site, 

 the calmest so far known in the Antarctic, is particu- 

 larly well suited. On the twenty-eighth of January, 

 1929, the first long flight was carried out to the north- 

 east along the Barrier edge (see Figure 6). Scott's 

 Nunataks and the Alexandra Mountains were sighted, 

 and also King Edward Land, which may perhaps be an 

 island. About fifty miles west by south from Scott's 

 Nunataks a new range was discovered and named Rocke- 



^ Now Rear-Admiral Byrd. 



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