Weather Research in the Antarctic by Australians
(Rec. 11.15) CANBERRA, April 23. Australian scientists have begun cosmic ray research at Heard Island on the fringe of Antarctica. The External Affairs Department, in announcing this, added that data has already been collected which enables the 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, which is 1400 miles south-west of Heard Island. Four South Africans- —a meteorologist, a radio operator, an engineer and a medical orderly—along with Tristandacunha Islands on Marion Island have landed to establish a weather radio station.
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Grey River Argus, 24 April 1948, Page 5
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