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SOME further details of Mr. J. R. RymilFs forthcoming antarctic expedition are published in the Geographical Journal of June. It is hoped to leave Great Britain early in September in the Penola, a three-masted topsail schooner of about 200 tons with a length of 112 ft. The Penola, which is fitted with a 100 H.P. Diesel engine, was built in 1908; she is of oak, and is now being reconditioned and sheathed with greenheart at Southampton. A De Haviland Puss Moth æroplane, capable of carrying three men, or two men with a survey camera, is being taken. Sixty dogs from West Greenland and twelve sledges will be carried. Messrs. Hampton and Stephenson, with the dogs and much of the equipment, will leave for the Falkland Islands in July, and Mr. Rymill with the rest of the expedition sailing in the Penola will meet them there in October. Discovery II is to assist in the transport of stores as far as Deception Island. Beyond that, the plans of the expedition will depend on the state of the ice, but it is hoped to set up the base house on Hearst Land in order to explore east and west by sledge. It may, however, be necessary for the ship to return to Deception Island if no good harbour is found in the far south. The expedition proposes to return to England in May 1937.
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British Antarctic Expedition. Nature 133, 903 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133903b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/133903b0