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QUEENSLAND COAST

EXPEDITION TO BARRIER REEF.

SCIENTISTS’ CONCLUSIONS

Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Press Association.

BRISBANE, July 4, (Received July 4, at 9.10 a.m.)

A scientific expedition which has returned from examining tho Great Barrier Reef between Cairns and Thursday Island secured valuable data as the result of a month’s work. Tho members claim to have made discoveries which will Tinve an important bearing on tho solution of the major problems of tho Barrier Reef. They point to tho fact that probably during long geological ages Queensland lost territory through the sea invading tho coast for many miles. The former coast line is now composed of rows of islands and peaks of submerged mountains. During all this time the Barrier also had been sinking, but the coral had grown as fast as tho foundation had sunk, so that the gain equalised tho loss.

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Evening Star, Issue 18318, 4 July 1923, Page 5

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QUEENSLAND COAST Evening Star, Issue 18318, 4 July 1923, Page 5

QUEENSLAND COAST Evening Star, Issue 18318, 4 July 1923, Page 5

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