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Show Byrd Antarctic Expedition 1939 " .'. '. HQ HQ ISO 160 I7Q WEST ISO t AST ITO 160 Map showing the location of two expedition bases for the Byrd antarctic expedition; Inset, Dr. Russell G. Frazier, physician-surgeon to be stationed at West Base. Considered in many ways as the most important of the antarctic ant-arctic expeditions led by Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, 125 men in two boats are expected expect-ed to set sail from the Boston Navy yards about November 1. Besides the land the United States will claim, and congress considered this phase important enough to appropriate $235,000 for the expedition, a great deal of scientific data will be gathered gather-ed that has never been studied before, expedition leaders state. The map above shows the antarctic ant-arctic and the location of the two camps, East Base and West Base, about 1600 miles apart. The men will journey to the camps in two boats, the Bear and the North Star. Dr. Russell G. Frazier of this city has been assigned as physician-surgeon in charge of West Base under Paul Siple, Ph.D., commander, and will travel to his post on the North Star. Dr. Siple has been on two previous Byrd expeditions. expedi-tions. Ever since Dr. Frazier arrived in Boston the latter part of September, Sep-tember, he has been busied with details of preparation. Some of the experiments he will assist with during the two-year stay in "Little America" are original laboratory work and studies of physical condition of expedition members during the long winter night, such as metabolism, copper content of hair ancTblood, blood sugars, hemoglobin, reds and whites differences, blood sugars and ureas. The party will have reached Auckland, New Zealand, on Christmas day. They will not be completely out of touch with the world even during their 14 month stay on the ice. Two fifteen-minute fifteen-minute national broadcasts each month will be sent from the expedition ex-pedition bases. Arrangements have been made for radio hookups hook-ups with every navy and army base in the world. Dr. Frazier will be able to talk over radio with Fort Douglas any day he desires. To Dr. Frazier has fallen an assignment to kill 500 seal for meat this winter. Acting for Governor Henry H. Blood, Levi Edgar Young, president presi-dent of the New England mission mis-sion of the L.D.S. church, presented pre-sented Dr. Frazier with the Utah state flag last Friday. He is also taking with him a pennant from Morris Harvey college of Charleston, Charles-ton, West Virginia, the school which presented him with an honorary doctorate of science last May. |