Happy 2012!
Happy New Year!
From Gibbs's Journal:
On Jan. 1 1940 En route for Little America. Today is New Year’s day and although I am at sea, almost at the bottom of the world, I am still ok and very anxious to get to the South Pole. Today is very beautiful at sea and there are many icebergs to be seen. Also whales. We ran into some very thick ice packs and lost a day trying to find a hole through the ice but couldn’t. So, we turned back and after getting out of the ice trap we headed west. This is my first time of seeing day light for twenty-four hours.
From Gibbs's Journal:
On Jan. 1 1940 En route for Little America. Today is New Year’s day and although I am at sea, almost at the bottom of the world, I am still ok and very anxious to get to the South Pole. Today is very beautiful at sea and there are many icebergs to be seen. Also whales. We ran into some very thick ice packs and lost a day trying to find a hole through the ice but couldn’t. So, we turned back and after getting out of the ice trap we headed west. This is my first time of seeing day light for twenty-four hours.