THE ANTARCTIC
DR MAW'SON'S EXPEDITION. VALUE OF WIRELESS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, SYDNEY, August 30. In the course of a lecture at West Maitland in aid of the Mawson relief fund, Professor David said that one of the greatest triumphs of this exploration party was the establishment' of a wireless telegraphic system between Antarctica and Australia. The scientific forecasting of the weather, whereby mefcerologiste were now able to predict the coming of Antarctic storms, would alonfe amply justify over and over again the cost of Dr Maw son's expedition. If they saved only one shipwreck a year that wireless stdtion was worth what it had cost.
THE AUSTRIAN EXPEDITION. (Times-Sydney Sun Special Cables.) VIENNA, August 29. The.ship purchased with the funds collected for the Austrian Antarctic expedition will sail from Trieste under the charge of Dr Koenig, of Gratz, in May next.
Arrangements aro being completed for an Austrian Antarctic expedition, which is to oast £25,000. It is / proposed to start in May, 1914, and tho expedition will bo under Doctor Felix Koenig, who was a member of Lieutenant Filchner's Arctic Evpeditioa. Untenant Filohnor's ship has been purciiascd for £8256.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 15857, 1 September 1913, Page 5
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