THE MAWSON EXPEDITION
WORK HELD UP BY SNOW. RANGE OF VISION LIMITED. (United Press Association.) ' (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) SYDNEY, January 20, (Received Jan. 20, at 10 p.m.) A wireless mesage from Sir Douglas Mawson states; “ Incessant snow has limited our range of vision since the recent blizzard and has suspended all but biological and hydrographic work. Dredgings indicate that the continental shelf hereabout is irregular, suggesting subsidence of the former land surface. With the rising temperature ice chunks fell from the rigging, and damaged-the aeroplane wings, which arc now being repaired. The weather promises an improvement, and we have decided to stand south-east to investigate the new land discovered eastward of Kempland, which we propose to name Macßohertson Land, in honour of the men to whom the expedition owes so much.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20930, 21 January 1930, Page 9
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