NEWS FROM MAWSON.
ANTARCTIC WINTER OVER, By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Sydney, November 18. _' Dr. Mawsoii, head of tlio Antarctic Expedition in Atlclio Land, has wirelessed that the first penguins of the season arrived on October 17. Members of the party killed a large sea leopard at thoend of September, which lauded immediately in front of the house. A heavy southerly swell oil Octohor 10 indicated that the pack outside the buy had broken up. . Commonwealth Bay was not frozen over this winter. Tho party experienced unusually heavy snowfalls during tho spring, and Wore only , now 'beginning to recover their stores, which have been buried under huge masses .of snow. This has caused ■SGiiio inconvenience. "Wo liavo been ablo to $end time signals to Melbourne Observatory,, wh-ieh enabled longitude to bo obtained very exactly, and have also made auroral observation and secured valuable information regarding tho aurora. All members of tho party are well, but anxious to return." . Dr. MawBOB has wirelessed his "deepest thanks" to Sir Robert Lucas-Tooth for his gift of £1000. "It comes at a time of the expedition's greatest need." He explains that his past month-'s silence was duo to tile wireless apparatus being much' impeded.
STJEFANNSON'S EXPEDITION, (Rec. ; November 19, 1.20 a.m.) Now York, November 18. Tim report from Vancouver that the Arctic explorer Stcfauuson has been lost is not confirmed.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1910, 19 November 1913, Page 7
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224NEWS FROM MAWSON. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1910, 19 November 1913, Page 7
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