THE DEPTHS OF THE OCEAN.
Sidney, December 14
In the course of ft survey of the Pacific Islands, the survey vessel Penguin reports that she made at-A tempts to obtain soundings near Friendly Group,butthe wiresnnpped at a depth of 29,400 feet, without the bod of tho ocean beinp reached. This is the deepest known water in the world, aud is nearly 1,500 feet deoper than tho deepest known in the North Pacific, and 2,000 feet
deeper than any known in tho North Atlantic.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5207, 14 December 1895, Page 2
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83THE DEPTHS OF THE OCEAN. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5207, 14 December 1895, Page 2
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