NEW LAND SIGHTED
MAWSON’S POLAR EXPEDITION
(United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright)
(Received 14th January, 10.5 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. A dispatch from Sir Douglas Mawson states: “After crossing D’Urville Sea the Discovery arrived at Cape Robert, which is the extreme western point of the lands seen by Admiral D’Urville in 1840. The aeroplane was sent up and the airmen observed new land extending westward from Cape Bickerton towards the eastern extremity of the land sighted by Captain Aurora in 1913 and then named by us Wilkes Land. “Nothing lias yet been seen of the floating barrier of ice which existed in 1840.’’
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 14 January 1931, Page 5
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