MAWSON EXPEDITION
. SEVERAL DAYS' STORM IN TOUCH WITH .WHALER. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. , SYDNEY, December 19. Sir Douglas Mawsqn reports that after leaving Macquarie Island he took soundings in the vicinity of the Bishop 'Clark Islets, which, rising from a Macquarie submarine shelf, constitute a danger to shipping. The Discovery was storm tossed for several days, rendering a search for the elusive Emerald' Island impracticable. The ship at last emerged from the mists into a clear sea flecked with _ broken ice, and came into touch with the whaler Sir James Clark Ross, which has coal for the Discovery, whoso personnel are all. well, despite temperatures which are generally below freezing point. .
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Evening Star, Issue 20672, 20 December 1930, Page 17
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