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Now that Admiral Byrd is on the way home and Mrs. Byrd has departed for Dunedin, New Zealand, to meet her husband and his party, the question is again before the people who have taken a nominal interest in the trip to Ant artica, as to what use we can put the admiral’s 200,000 square miles, recently annexed to the United States for the greater glory of our empire. This inquiry has been delivered before and with such force that it penetrated clear to the daring admiral in his distant outpost, and through the New York Times, he has attempted to answer it. It seems that there are 22 uses of the dis covery, and that the geographical use is only one of them. Among the other subjects being studied by the hardy pioneers of Marie Byrd Land are these, as well: Astronomy, meteorology, physical ocean ography, biology, oceanography, vertebrate and invertebrate zoology, mammalogy, physiol ogy, glaciology, stratigraphy, petrography, paleontology, tectonic and economic geology, geophysics, physical geography, cartography, physical and terrestrial magnetism, bacteriol ogy and botany. To them, as suggested the other day by an Englishman in Australia, might be added the potentialities of the new territory as a summer resort, abounding in winter sports. For all the uses to which the land may be put considerate persons will be thankful. They would hate to think that Admiral Byrd and his stout company spent so long a time in so frigid a place for nothing. Peggy Joyce says she is only 32. She must have been married the first time while she was in eighth grade.
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Helena Independent Record
Helena, Montana, US
Sat, Feb 23, 1935
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