Evening star. [volume], December 19, 1947, Page B-2, Image 35

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Ronne Reports Flight
Confirms Antarctic
Is Single Continent
By Comdr. Finn Ronne
North American Nowtpapor Alliance
RONNE ANTARCTIC BASE
STONINGTON ISLAND, Dec. 14
(Delayed).—At 5:20 a.m. local time
on December 12, Pilot James Lass
iter, Aerial Photographer William
Latady and I tools oil in the Ed
Sweeney plane from Mount Tricorn
on the last major flight of this
expedition's exploratory program.
After flying for 7 hours and 35
minutes, we landed safely at Cape
Knowles, where a gasoline refuel
ing cache had been previously de
posited for the return journey.
Results Outlined.
Our flight successfully accom
plished the following:
1. Explored and photographed the
recently discovered barrier along
the Weddell Coast to a point further
southeast than was reached on our
November 21 flight, thus connecting
the unknown link with the previ
ously explored coastline beyond a
doubt.
2. Definitely established that this
heretofore unknown sector of the
Weddell coast contains land beneath
its enormous ice mass—land which
gradually Increases in elevation
until it joins the South Polar pla
teau itself.
3. Proved conclusively that the
Antarctic is one continent and is
not divided by a frozen body of
water from the Weddell Sea to the
Ross Sea.
4. Explored an additional 60,000
square miles of previously unknown
territory over and above the 170,000
square miles explored on the Novem
ber 21 flight.
The flight marks the end of our
exploratory program, in which a
conservatively estimated total of not
less than 230,000 square miles of new
land has been discovered and ex
plored in the name of the United
— States in the most difficult and ifi
m accessible sector of the Antarctic
continent—from 78 south 73 west, tc
79' 15" south 40 west.
More than 4,500 aerial trimetro
gon pictures record this expanse oi
land to enable cartographers tc
make more accurate maps.
Last Flight In Program.
Although this flight was the last
ip our exploratory program, trimet
rogon mapping of the more accessi
ble regions of the Palmer peninsula
will continue until our supply ol
aviation gasoline is exhausted. This
mapping program—which has been
maintained right along with the ex
ploratory program—has in addition
photographed 145.000 square miles.
This makes a conservative total esti
mate of 385,000 square miles of ter
ritory mapped in a total of over 9,
000 aerial pictures.
In closing the exploratory pro
gram for this expedition, I have
now completely covered the width
of this particular sector of the An
tarctic from west to east. On my
sledge journey west in 1940, my
turning point was close to longitude
80 west of Greenwich at a latitude of
about 73 degrees south. On our re
jcent flight, our easternmost turning
1 point was longitude 40 degrees west
of Greenwich and latitude 79 de
grees south. This is the exact seg
jment claimed by Great Britain, but
which claim up to the present has
I not been recognized by the United
States.
—
Marine Group Plans Dinner
The officers of the Fifth Marine
Infantry Reserve Battalion will hold
a stag dinner and cocktail party in
the officers’ club at the Naval Gun
Factory, Eighth and M streets S.E.
at 6:30 o’clock tonight.
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Arthur Clarendon Smith, with a
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Kirk Miller, former sports editor
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—.
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