ANDES LAKE

Evening Star, Issue 22805, 13 November 1937, Page 10

ANDES LAKE

WHERE INGAS' GOLD IS SUNK SCIENTISTS' EXPEDITION A party of Cambridge graduates sailed from Liverpool recently in the P.S.N.C. liner Orbita for South America, where they will spend six months dredging the bed of Lake Titicaca, which is over 12,000 ft above sea level in the Andes between Peru and Bolivia. The party ; known as the Percy Sladen Expedition, will make a zoological and botanical investigation of the problems of the migration of animals, insects, and plankton, and will ascertain the possibilities of breeding fish other than the catfish and carp, which at present are the only fish in the lake, which has an area of 3,000 square miles, and' is 800 ft deep. They have with them a 26ft launch for dredging. The expedition is led by Mr H. _C. Gilson, and the members are specialists in fresh water biology. Their headquarters will be at Puno, at the north-east corner of the lake, where gold images and vessels said to be worth anything up to £50,000,000, are believed to have been thrown into the lake by the Incas during the Spanish conquest of Peru.