LOST CONTINENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 281, 26 November 1932, Page 9

LOST CONTINENT.

A MYSTIC LAND.

British Expedition to Search

Arabian Sea.

LIFE OF RARE ANIMALS

(United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Itecelved 10.30 a.m.) CALCUTTA, November 25. A search for the supposed submerged continent between the Indian and the African coasts of the Arabian Sea will be undertaken next year by an expedition headed by Colonel Seymour Sewell, Directo. of Zoological Survey for India.

The expedition will also investigate the life of rare marine animals supposed to exist in the Arabian Sea, and an attempt will be made to capture monsters believed to live in mid-water, never rising to the surface or sinking to the bed of the ocean.

The expedition will further attempt to discover .traces of continental areas supposed to have stretched westwards from India many thousands of years ago. The continent is known to scientists as "Lemuria," and its existence is baeed on fauna similar to that at present found on the Indian and African coasts of the Arabian Sea.

The name Lemuria, first applied by the scientist W. L. Sclater, was used to describe the continent which is believed in certain circles of thought to have existed where the Arabian Sea now rolls. Its name was chosen because of the plentiful presence of the tree-living animals called lemur in Madagascar, North-Eastern Africa, India, and parts of the Malay Archipelago, the fact of their widely-separated habitats being explained by the existence of a continent stretching across from Africa to India and Malay.