IN ANTARCTICA.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1720, 10 April 1913, Page 7

IN ANTARCTICA.

WIRELESS MESSAGES FROM

DR MAWSON

SETTLED DOWN FOR THE WINTER,

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Sydney, April 0. : The wireless station at Adelieland is now working splendidly, and Dr. Maw- . son is in regular communication with tho Pennant Hills station, near Sydney. A long'message, dated April 2, gives detoils of the party's doings, and mentions that they are assailed nightly by wireless signals from far and wide, including tho . Government stations in Now Zealand and ■ those at Melbourne and Hobart, and also . the warships. ; , The message states that the expedition's work has proved that the Antarctic Continent lies much further south than where Wilkes's American expedition mapped it. : Winter is now fairly upon them, the last penguin has departed, and terrific hurricanes are being experienced.. The party is frequently setting bottles adrift to ascertain the direction of the ocean .'currents, and hopes ships picking thorn up will report. - < Dr. Mawson is anxious for the Aurora to leave Australia in November next to piok up the Macqnarie party, arriving in Adelie'.and about December 10. It is anticipated that the ice conditions will then allow the Aurora to do this. He is particularly anxious for a competent physicist to join- tho Aurora equipped with pendulum apparatus to determine the figure of the earth. ;