Evening star., 1938-07-25
Ry LINCOLN ELLSWORTH.

NEW YORK, July 25 (N.AN.A.).-
With the Wyatt carp already on the
nigh seas, a new airplane bought,
tested and ready and the crew picked,
my fourth expedition to the Antarctic
may be declared under way
To stand on the springboard of an
expedition is not new experience
for me, but it's an excitement Gus
tom does not stale and the weather
in New York last week has been
particularly appropriate for such a
climax to nearly two years of plan
ming and preparing. Humid and hot,
with air thick as stagnant water,
1t made man breathe here as he
could have breathed 100,O00000 years
ago in the Antarctic.
One hundred million years! That's
a stretch of time, but it rolled back
q moment two winters ago when I
found fossils and shells that told
incontestably of an Antarctica that
once lay steaming under tropical for
ests. l stood in snow and cold and
held in my hand the evidence of that
ancient atmosphere and the evidence
also of coal and oil. 1t was one of
the high moments of my life, even
more thrilling than flying over a
thousand miles of 12,000-feet-h high
mountains no one knew existed.
Wealth for Time Of Change.
The world, of course, has changed
since that time. But, perhaps, it will
change again, or ice will not be the
bar to transportation that it now is
When that happens and if the United
States moves to file formal claim
to the 350,000 square miles of land
that I have discovered in its name,
then it will have stored up wealth for
that time of change
The 1888 Ellsworth Antarctic expedi-
tion is. like its predecessor, voyage
OF discovery. We are going to the
Enderby Quadrant, an almost entirely
unknown area of 100000 square miles
on the African side of the continent
Only the coast-line of this area has
been seen by man. No one has gone
deeper than mile or two inland.
Discoveries will be made by air
plane. This year I am taking with me
Northrop Delta cabin monoplane.
All but two seats have been removed
and the space filled with gasoline tanks
to step up the cruising range to 1000
miles. This will enable me. if condi-
tions are right, to make flight right
across the whole continent, including
the South Pole, to Little America,
where I plan to wait for the Wyatt
carp to come around and pick me up
All-Surface Equipment.
The plane is equipped for all kinds
OF surfaces with skis, wheels and
pontoons. It's motor is a 750-horse-
power Wright Cyclone 1t has a two
way wireless with which it can main
tain contact with the Wyatt carp.
The pilot will be j. H. Lymburner
Of Dunnkville, Quebec. He is a
Royal Air Force Reserve pilot. as
well as a commercial transport flyer
and is experienced in flying over
frozen territory.
Mr.. Lymburner will not be new to
the Antarctic. He was emergency
pilot and second engineer on my
previous expedition. He took over
the relief plane from Dick Merrill
and flew it in search Of Capt. Herbert
Hollick-Kenyon and myself when we
were believed lost. He has eight years
experience as radio engineer and
transport pilot.
This time T. r. Trerice of st. Johns,
Quebec, will be flight engineer and
emergency pilot. He has six years
experience as transport pilot, with
operations mainly in Northern Quebec
The captain of the Wyatt carp will
be Londer Johansen, 80. In the