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A DEEP ANCHORAGE. ■GERMAN SHIP’S DISCOVERY. BERLIN, Aug. 11. The German exploration vessel Meteor has returned to Germany after two and a quarter years of work in the Atlantic. In a lecture given at the banquetby the Geographical Society of Berlin in honour of Captain Spies,s, the comnlander of the vessel, and his iscioiitific staff. Captain Spiess described their thirteen voyages across the Atlantic between the coasts of South America and Africa, in the course of which 10,000 double observations as to- -the proportion of salt and the temperature- of the water were made. The exploration of the supper strata of the air was carried out by twenty-one flights of kites and 812 ascents of pii’iot-b-alloons. Thanks to a new anchorage device, the Meteor was able to anchor in depths no to 31 miles. The greatest depths discovered in the Southern Atlantic was in the South Sandwich Deeps, where the lead showed a few yards over five -miles. The expedition brought home a vast amount of material, the thorough study of which will require- several yeans.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 16 August 1927, Page 7
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179STUDY AT SEA. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 16 August 1927, Page 7
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