SECOND POLAR YEAR
PROPOSED SCIENTIFIC MOVE (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (Received this day at noon.) WASHINGTON. February IS. me I loom of Foreign Alf airs (Joiiimiott.ee favourably voted on a resolution authorising an appropriation for the participation of United States with 20 other nations, in "a second polar year” in which from August Ist, 1932 to August Blst, 1933, participating countries, through nearly fifty stations plan to gather information regarding the elements surrounding the earth, especially off the polar extremities. Ilyrd’s “Little America” is expected to he reoccupied for meteorological, electrical, magnetic research. It is understood the project for such reoccupation comes from New Zealand, where it is proposed a station will he established by Norwegian whalers. United States will probably equip and man stations at I-airhanks, Alaska, Refuge Harbour, Greenland, Argentina, at New Year’s Island, France in the South Indian Ocean, Brazil in the South Polar regions, Russia in Arctic and others at various points throughout the globe. “The first, polar year” so-called, was in 1882 when leading nations joined in similar work.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 February 1931, Page 5
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175SECOND POLAR YEAR Hokitika Guardian, 19 February 1931, Page 5
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