VALUABLE FISHERIES
, - - .-I y. NEW LANDS CLAIMED FOR THE CROWN. \ SYDNEY, May 21. The report of Sir Douglas Maw son on the Australian and New .Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition that it can be definitely assertal that off the coast of Enderby Land- there exists a very valuable whale fishery. “It would appear that the Norwegian exploring vessel Norvegia located .this whaling ground simultaneously- with ourselves, and. from that fishery mfL lions of pounds! worth of i product*, will be recovered hr the next few* years.” , The report adds that exhaustive hydrological data have been recorded, while biological studies were continued throughout the cruise on an extensive scale. • The report also deals with ex,perinces in the pack -ice, after which Sir Douglas Mawson states that <be chartered a new area which he has designated Macßobertson Land, together with lands further west known as Kemp Land and Enderby Land. The whole of these have been claimed For the- Crown.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 May 1930, Page 3
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