MAWSON’S EXPLORATIONS
SOME WONDERFUL DISCOVERIES
(Received this day at noon.) (All Rights Reserved).
CANBERRA, Feb. 5. A wireless from Mawson dated 28th
January,‘ states:-“During the past few days we have been) busy running .ne marine section in full detail as we
have proceeded northward from Enderby Land coast into a deep basin of the Southern Ocean. To-dav we are in latitude 63/50 south longitude 54/16 east. Operations have been carried out in water 53 to 54 metres deep. A special feature has been the richness in the waters 1000, metres below the surface, where a large variety of fish have been netted. Borne are quite extraordinary' in form. Blue whales are abundant and icebergs are also plentiful, but show the effects of warmer waters, being reduced from compact tabular forms of the continental shelf region to spired turreted shapes, often of j..riking grandeur.. One such has just- passed. We measured it and found is to be 250 ft. high.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 February 1930, Page 5
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