FRENCH PLANS
AIR BASE ON KERGUELEN ISLAND (Rec. 11.5 a.m.) PERTH, This Day. Members of the Australian Antarctic expedition, which reached Albany yesterday from Heard Island, revealed that the French are planning to build a huge air base at Kerguelen Island, 250 miles front Heard Island, and 2500 miles south-west, of Perth. They said that within a few months there would be over 100 workmen at the newly-established settlement of Port aux Francais. Twenty bull-dozers would be used to level a two-ntile runway. The French had already established a weather station at Kerguelen, and recently landed a party at Rocky Amsterdam Island, about 1000 miles west of Perth, with the intention of establishing another weather base there;
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 126, 13 March 1950, Page 3
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