MOUNTAINS LOST.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 21 December 1925, Page 8

MOUNTAINS LOST.

REMARKABLE DISCOVERY IN THE ATLANTIC. BANK THAT VANISHED. CAPETOWN, Nov. 2. New discoveries on Hie bed of the Atlantic Ocean are reported by tile German research ship Meteor, which has arrived 'in Capetown. Her commission of scientific men from the Berlin Oceangraphic Institute discovered a new uaiik lying off the South' African coast; also that the Dinklage Bank, which is marked on all the atlases for the past hundred years, no longer exists. Captain Spies informs me that he has christened his find the “Meteor Bank.” It lies a thousand miles south-west of Capetown, and shoals up from the bottom of the sea, which lies at a depth of 12,000 feet. The highest points- of the bank come within 1500 feet of the surface for a length of forty miles bearing 10 E. 49 S. Regarding the disappearance of the Dinklage Bank, the commander reports that when they should have been right over the shoal they were registering depths of 12,000 feet. There is no sign whatever of its existence. Dr. George Wust, the leader of the expedition, said that it was known that a submarine range ran down the centre of the Atlantic parallel with the toast of Africa. “We discovered two new ridges,” he said, “the Walfish ridge on the African side and the Rio Grande ridge off the American coast. These three ridges break up the underwater currents of the ocean.”