AERO RECORD.
« • WARRIMOO AND COCOS ISLAND. !By Telegraph — Press Association.) Dunedin, August 11. On her way down from Lyttelton to Dunedin last night the steamer Warrimoo was in wireless touch with Cocos' Island, which was picked up at 0.40 a.m. The distance is 4341 miles. This is claimed as an Australian record. [Of tho various islands in different parts of the world bearing this name, the reference in tho message is probably to Cocos Island lying somo hundreds of miles north of the Galnpago Group, and not far from the Isthmus of Darien, through which the Panama Canal ia being cut.]
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1516, 12 August 1912, Page 4
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101AERO RECORD. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1516, 12 August 1912, Page 4
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