DISCOVERY’S CRUISE
OF GREAT VALUE. (Cnited Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.^ (Received this clay at 10.1-3 a.in.) LONDON, June 1. The Discovery's investigations in the southern whaling industry, involved \\ idespreud researches into temperature, sa.inity, density of sen water, eouLe...t of pnospuaie nitrate, eoiiLi u’ui.ig growth of microscopic plaius oil winch animals and whales subsist. In tile course of the- studies on the ivisco voi'N", > WUiiam Coresoy compared areas and seasons in order to ascertain concentration, and migration of whales, and the occurrence of good and bad whaling years. The Discovery’s work occupied two summers and covered 2.600 miles of South Georgia whaling grounds, making thousands of hauls and taking thousands of temperatures of water samples. Tlie Discovery has done much to make navigation safer.
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 June 1931, Page 5
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