INTO ANTARCTIC MISTS

Hawera Star, Volume L, 19 December 1930, Page 9

INTO ANTARCTIC MISTS

VOYAGE OF THE DISCOVERY VISIT TO MACQUARIE ISLAND PERSONNEL OF SHTP ALL WELL. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received 2.15 p.m. to-day. SYDNEY, Dec. J 9. Sir Douglas Mawson reports that after leaving Macquerie Island he took soundings in the vicinity of Bishop Clerk Island, which rising from the Macquerie Island submarine shelf, constitutes a danger to shipping. The Discovery was storm-tossed for several days, rendering the search for the elusive Emerald Isle impracticable. The ship at last emerged from the mists into clear sea flecked with broken ice. The Discovery is. in touch with whaler Sir James. Clark Ross, which has coal for the Discovery, whose personnel are all well despite temperatures generally below freezing point.

The weather was. stormy during the expedition's two days’ stay at Macquarie Island. The wireless station and huts abandoned in 191.6 are so weatherworn that they are. now useless. The penguin i-ookeries, which were greatly depleted isome years ago, wiien the seals also were decimated, are beginning to recover since the island has been declared a, sanctuary, been declared a sanctuary. A number of icebergs were found, stranded on the shallow bank at the south end of the island.