NEW LAND DISCOVERED

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 904, 22 February 1930, Page 1

NEW LAND DISCOVERED

EXPLORERS SURVEY COAST IN AIRPLANE VOYAGE OF NORVEGIA OSLO, Thursday. A copyright message from the Discovery says: "A new land of which 100 nautical miles of coast have been charted by airplane, is reported by Captain Larsen, in a wireless message sent yesterday. After the Discovery and Norvegia met. Holm himself constantly attempted to investigate it from an. airplane. The new land is supposed to lie at 32 degrees west. "The weather and ice rendered the attempt impossible, and the Norvegia then steered southward until February 16, when soundings at 70 degrees 42 minutes south, 12 degrees 20 minutes west, gave 1,325 fathoms of water, shallowing to 670 fathoms, when the long chain grounded. ICEBERG SIGHTED “An iceberg was sighted to which the vessel approached. Soundings showed 170 fathoms, decreasing to 125, seeming to indicate a continental shelf, from which a submarine plateau 125 fathoms deep stretched toward the new land, which was discovered early on February 17. "The Norvegia stopped at the foot of the ice barrier at a depth of 90 fathoms, at 71 degrees 26 minutes south, 11 degrees 31 minutes west, where the north-western point of the land lies. FLIGHT TO BARRIER "Larsen and Holm flew out and charted the west coast to 71 degrees 50 minutes south, 11 degrees 25 minutes west, where they saw the Barrier stretching in a south-westerly direction. They charted the north side and east-north-eastward to eight degrees west. “Snowstorms and fogs made charting very difficult. The western point of the new land is 1,100 feet high. The eastern part is lower, with the ice barrier protruding. The north coast is quite free of ice, the western partly so. No peak showed above the ice.”

FURTHER FINDS

COUNTRY OF ICE AND SNOW Reed. 1 p.m. OSLO, Friday. A wireless message from Captain Larsen states that since the discovery of the new land the Norvegia has steamed along the bank as far as 71.41 degrees South and 14.32 degrees West. When she was 50 nautical miles offshore south of the Bank and west of the land discovered previously, soundings showed 330 fathoms. Larsen and Holm charted by airplane a new land stretching as far west as Coatsland. It was completely covered with ice and snow. The Norvegia is now going westward.