TRISTAN DA CUNHA
WORLD'S LONELIEST ISLAND TO HAVE WIRELESS STATOIN. Pieas Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, November 4. (Received November 5, at 8 a.m.) Following permission from Mr Ormsby Gore for the establishment of a wireless transmitting on the world’s loneliest island, Tristan da Cunha, Dr _ Erling Christophersen is proceeding to Cape Town as the head of an expedition which will leave Cape Town for the island about November 22 vvith a radio unit, a complete meteorological station, two zoologists, two botanists, and a meteorological unit. He hopes to provide South Africa with weather forecasts.
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Evening Star, Issue 22798, 5 November 1937, Page 9
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93TRISTAN DA CUNHA Evening Star, Issue 22798, 5 November 1937, Page 9
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