POSITION OF THREE KINGS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 13 September 1928, Page 9

POSITION OF THREE KINGS

NEARER COAST THAN CHARTS INDICATED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Sept. 13. Mr T. K. Thompson, formerly of New ’Zealand Lands and Surveys Department, now retired on superannuation, in a statement published here, says' that when he was malting a Government survey in the vicinity of Cape Maria lie took the opportunity oi checking the charting of the Three Kings by triangulation, working from a base line formed by two tugs 25 miles apart. He made the extraordinary discovery that the Three Kings were, four miles out of position, and four miles nearer the coast than the Admiralty chart showed them to be, on the fringe line of the sea lane where it was very diificult to pick up the landfall in thick weather. This, states Mr. Thompson, was known when the Elingamite was wrecked, hut was not disclosed at the Inquiry. Surveys made some years later by a warship and by the Terra Nova, when returning from the Antarctic expedition confirmed his discovery of 1894.