DEEPER AND DEEPER
Soundings of the ocean in the North Polar Basin are still being taken. When the sounding instruments were first sent down from the Soviet ice-floo near the Pole they touched bottom at 4290 metres, or something over two miles. A further sounding gives the depth at about two miles and a furlong, and it seems that the ocean may deepen along a line drawn from south to north.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22819, 28 August 1937, Page 9 (Supplement)
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71DEEPER AND DEEPER New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22819, 28 August 1937, Page 9 (Supplement)
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