MOUNTAINS UNDER THE SEA

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26848, 29 September 1952, Page 7

MOUNTAINS UNDER THE SEA

British Expedition’s Discoveries

(Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON. Sept. 27; British scientists found previously uncharted ffioUnt&infe Under the sea during a two-and-a-half year voyage round the WWld Which ended today when the Admiralty survey ship Chai* lender docked at the Portsmouth naval base. The highest of these mountains, abeut 7000 ft, ite about 400 miles off Cape Viflcfcfit in the Atlantic, and there sire Several metfe ih the Pacific. fit 1 . T. F. Gaskell, leader of the three scientists on the trip, said today: “Samples of materials taken during the soundings will probably solve many scientific arguments about the geologi* cal nature of deep sea beds.” He added that it had taken months of patient soundings before the mountains were discovered. No one had suspected their existence before. The Challenger also brought bask photographs of a bird believed to have been extinct for more than 16 years Dr. Gaskell said: “The bird, a short* tailed albatross, was. photographed flying near Us iii the North Pacific. The apfecies was believed extinct ih 1936, after the Japanese had killed the few surviving birds far their feathers;” A sample of ted voicahic mud was hauled Up when the ship made the World’s deepest soundings of 4940 fathoms (six and three*quaftef ffiiies), in the Pacific. It has be£h sent id the British MdSfeuffi.

N.& Cheese for U.S.— Approximately 800 tons Of Cheese froffi New Ply* mouth, New Zealand, Wds Unloaded at Baltimore, Maryland, from the British freighter Dorset last week.—New [York, September 28.