COSMIC RAY RESEARCH IN ANTARCTICA
(10 a.m.) CANBERRA, April 24. Australian scientists have begun cosmic ray research at Heard Island on the fringe of Antarctica. The External Affairs Department, in announcing this, added that the data already collected enables scientists to make a more extensive study of the exchange of polar and tropical air masses in these latitudes. Radio contact has been established with Marion Island, 1400 miles south-west of Heard Island, where four South Africans—a meteorologist, radio operator, engineer and medical orderly—with Tristan Da Cunha Islanders have landed to establish a weather and radio station.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22620, 24 April 1948, Page 5
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