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Hokitika Guardian, 13 December 1933, Page 5

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SUBMARINE TRACES

EXPEDITION’S VALUABLE FIND

{United Press Association—By Eleetrio Telegraph—Copyright)

('Received this day at 9 a.in.) : CALCUTTA, December 12

Traceg of Lemuria, the supposed lost continent in the Indian ‘Ocean, stretching from India, to the African and Arabian coasts, have been discovered by Sir John Murray’s oceanographic expedition, which has completed three month’s survey in the Red Sea, the Cull of Aden, the Arabian Sea, and the Gulf of Oman.

The investigations were carried out •in the Egyptian Government's survey ship, 'Mabasiss, which steamed 8747 miles, and surveyed large areas of the ocean bed.

The discoveries included ten submarine hill ranges, running north-east to south-west .across the. Gulf of Aden, and between India and Arabia, two submerged mountain chains, a raised plateau, and a deep valley which are unrecorded <sn the present charts. The general configuration of the area from the entrance of the Gulf of Aden to the Indian Coast leaves little douibt that the sea floor was once a large land area, and the deep valley was probably a large riverbed. Two' areas were ■ found where there was no Animal life on the bottom, one whereof avAs in the Red Sea where there were no living organisms below •250 fathoms.