HOMEWARD BOUND.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 62, 14 March 1930, Page 7

HOMEWARD BOUND.

Sir D. Mawson Returning From Antarctic. EN ROUTE TO AUSTRALIA. CANBERRA, March 13. A copyright wireless message from Sir Douglas Mawson on board the Discovery says.— "Now that we are definitely turned toward civilisation all hands are pleasurably anticipating the prospect of the addition of fresh vegetables to their diet. Our potatoes and onions kept well in spite of the adverse climatic conditions, but were finished long ago. The excellence of the preserved food stores is attested by the fact that there has been no sickness among the members of the expedition, and some of them have put on weight. "Wireless communication with Australia is now good, and not even affected by the luminescent auroral phenomena visible to-night in the southern sky. "We are now 1100 miles from Cape Leeuwin, on the direct run from Kerguelan Island. The weather since we left the island has helped us to continue marine investigations, with the object of defining the character and movements of the waters entering the eastern or Australian Antarctic basin along this front. "We have already found a striking submarine ridge connecting the Iverguelen plateau with the Antarctic continent, thus dividing into two compartments the deeper waters of the Southern Ocean.