ARABIAN SEA RESEARCH
SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION. “ LOST CONTINENT ’ ’ QUEST. (British Official Wireless.) (Received f 1.30 a.m.) RUGBY, August 3. . A scientific expedition to survey the Arabian ,Sca and the North-West Indian Ocean is being organised and will begin its operations next year. The expenses arc being Largely provided under the" wall of the late Sir John Murray, whose researches during the Challenger expedition last century immensely extended scientific knowledge regarding the oceans of tho world.
Next year’s expedition is to be'led by Colonel Seymour Sewell, Director of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Parts of- the Arabian Sea are of immense dc'pth, though few soundings have been taken away from the steamship route.
The main objects of the expedition will be to study the topography of the ocean bottom by echo soundings and to search for traces of the hypothetical Continent of Leamari, supposed to have stretched from India westwards. Ocean fauna and currents also will be studied. The committee arranging the expedition includes Admiral Douglas, Hydrographer of the Navy, and a representative of the Gcorgraphical and Natural History Societies under the chairmanship of Mr J. C. Murray.
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Northern Advocate, 4 August 1932, Page 5
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