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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yellow Sign" data-source="post: 780079" data-attributes="member: 5619">May 26, 1933"ANTARCTICA OR BUST!" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------Renown Adventurer Sets His Sights on the Bottom of the World.---------------------------------------------------------------------------New York (AP) - World famous explorer James Starkweather annouced today that he would lead a party of scientists and explorers into uncharted parts of the Antarctic continent this fall.Starkweather, accompanied by geologist William Moore of Miskatonic University in Arkham, Massachusetts, intends to continue along the trail first blazed by the ill-fated Miskatonic University Expedition of 1930-31.The Starkweather-Moore Expedition will set sail in September from New York City. Like their predecessors, they intend to use long-range aircraft to explore further into the South Polar wilderness than has ever been done before."This is not about the South Pole", Starkweather explained ths morning , in a prepared speech in his hotel in New York. "Many people have been to the Pole. We're going to go places where no one has ever been and see things that no one alive has seen."The expedition intends to spend only three months in Antarctica. Extensive use of aeroplanes for surveying and transport, according to Starkweather, will allow the party to chart and cover territory in hours that would have taken weeks to cover by ground.One goal of the expedition is to find the campsite and last resting place of the twelve men, led by Professor Charles Lake, who first discovered the Miskatonic Range, and who where killed by a unexpected storm. The mapping and climbing of the mountains in that range and the aerial survey of the lands on the far side are also important goals. "The peaks are tremendous," Starkweathe explained. "The tallest mountains in the world! It's my job to conquer those heights, and bring home their secrets for all mankind.""We have the finest equipment money can buy. We cannot help but succeed."Starkweather, 43, is a veteran of the Great War. He has led expeditions into the wilderness on four continents, and was present on the trans-polar flight of the airship Italia, whose crash near the end of its voyage on the North Polar ice cap received worldwide attention.Moore, 39, a full Professor of Geology, is also the holder of the Smythe Chair of Paleontology at Miskatonic Univeristy. He has extensive experience in harsh climates and has taken part in expeditions to both the Arctic and the Himalayan Plateau.</blockquote>

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