DENIZENS OF POLAR DEEP
CAPRICIOUS CLIMATE IN ANTARCTIC MAWSON PARTY’S EXPERIENCE Reed. 10 a.m. SYDNEY, Today. A message from Sir Douglas Mawson in the Antarctic says: “During the gloriously clear, calm evening hours of January 6 the Discovery steamed south-west through loose pack-ice toward the coast, on which it is hoped to effect a landing. We passed floes bearing curious denizens. "These regions, mirrored in the placid waters, made a fascinating midnight scene. “A few hours later meteorological chaos reigned. A fierce blizzard came down suddenly from the land slopes, but fortunately there was open water nearby, into which the ship was steered. There we rode out the fury of the storm, though passing bergs, looming spectrelike through the drifting snow, several times narrowly missed the ship. *'The wind reached a velocity of tO miles an hour and average 50 miles an hour. The gale died down next day.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 872, 16 January 1930, Page 9
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