Iter Antarcticus
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12 Visited with Mr A Grant a stockbreeder near Dunedin aged 73 with 7 children & grandchildren compared nation farming. NZ farms rated in butter fat production per acre in his region Aberdeen graduate in Agriculture, apparently quite wealthy, guest of Adm Tyree November 7. Up at 5:15 dressed cold weather and emergency called for at 6 and taken to the airstrip mess for breakfast Weather held us up and we did not fly until 10:30 Mr Bourne and I were the only passengers so we climbed ladders to the cockpit no windows so we saw nothing until we reached the foot of Boar more Glacier then we were invited to stand behind the pilot and copilot while the plane climbed the glacier about 2000 ft above the glacier The lower peaks and ridges are sharp with hanging and side glaciers in the upper part near the rim of the polar plateau they are mesa-like until the top top looks almost like a dissected peneplain Large eroded areas but scouting from the air would reveal feasible routes of apparently gentle slopes. When we reached the plateau we retired to our seats for sandwiches and orange and pineapple juice when Pole Station was visible in the distance we again took stations behind the