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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 2, 28 September 1920, Page 4

. Antarctic exploration continues to exert a charm over the public, not because of its novelty, but on Account of the solution of its great mysteries nt the hands of scientists. Among the curious polar phenomena hitherto beyond the ken of average human imagination, said Sir Douglas Mawson. in a lecture in Adelaide (says the. "South Australian Register") was the fact, mentioned by the lecturer, that it had uover been known to rain in the Antarctic. It was always dry snow" Hint fell. Ho also remarked that many pcoplo onco believed that the whole of the Antarctic Tegion was a vast accumulation of floating ice. Now, however, it was definitely known that there existed a stratum of solid rook. Some day, when the climate of the earth possibly got warmer, tho great ice formation, at least 1000 ft. deep in pjaces, would melt, and reveal whether or not the so-called Antarotic continent was a group of rocky islands buried beneath an ie'e cap. Sir Douglas Mawson explained that the average temperature at the South Pole was BO degrees colder than toat at the North Pete. i