STRANGE FISH
EXTRA ORDINAL SPECIMEN S IN ANTARCTIC.
BLUE' ‘ WHALES AB U NDANT
BUSY TIMES WITH THE AIAWSON’. EXPEDITION.
United Press Asim. hr El. Tel. .Oocyrigm • CANBERRA, Feb. 5. ; A wireless . message from. Sir Douglas Alawsou,' dated January k'S,; states ' “During the last’ tew days we have been busy running, the marine section' jin full detail,, and have proceeded northward from, flic EuMerby Land‘ coast intdi a. deep basih of tiio southern ocean. To.tlay we 'are .in-latitude 63 degrees 50 min-, utes .south- and longitude rlO minutes east.. Operations-, have ..been, carried , out. .in water 53 'to ejl metres deep. . . ' 1 1 “A' special feature' has- been - the richness 1 , -of.the .water; 100 ’metres below surface, whence., a large variety . of, llsli kgs . been secured. . Some . are quite ’ extraordinary I. lit form..
“Blue 'whales' are abundant, and icebergs -abound,- but- Show' the ef--I'ect of the’warmer .water, being- reduced from, compact tubular forms of the continental shelf region to the spiral, tur’reted ’ shapes, and are often- ifi striking 'grandeur.' One «= iifii.’ AiSl’ passed.- we' measured,, and found it to .bo-ioOft- high.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXX, Issue 11124, 6 February 1930, Page 3
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