DISCOVERY’S VOYAGE
REPORT FROM. SIR D. MAWSOX. NEW LANDS IN ANTARCTIC. (Australian Press Association.) (Received this day at 10 30 a.m.) SYDNEY, January 14. A dispatch from Sir Douglas Mawson states that after crossing D’Urville isea. the Discovery arrived at Capo Robert, which i,s tlie extreme western point, of tlie laiuks seen by Admiral D’Urville in 1840. An aeroplane was sent up and the airmen observed n new land, extending westward from Cape Bickerton towards the eastern extremity of the land sighted by the Captain of the Aurora in 1911. and then named by him Wilkes Land. Nothing has yet been seen of the floating harrier ice which existed in 1840.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 January 1931, Page 5
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111DISCOVERY’S VOYAGE Hokitika Guardian, 14 January 1931, Page 5
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