Rescue by Discovery

In late November 1935 the American explorer, Lincoln Ellsworth, left Dundee Island at the north of the Antarctic Peninsula. With his pilot, Hubert Hollick-Kenyon, his intention was to cross the Antarctic and reach the abandoned American base at Little America. Soon the Americans lost contact with the rest of the world and when no word came from them, the Commonwealth Government of Australia called on the government of the United Kingdom to send a ship to effect a rescue. Britain's response was c