THE THREE KINGS.
FRESH SURVEY MADE. WELLINGTON, May 10. After leaving Auckland recently, H M S Cambrian made a fresh survey of the Three Kings, which had the effect of modifying the previous estimates of the variation in distance between the actual position of the islands and that shown on the original chart. At the time of her previous survey the Cambrian reported that the position of the Threo Kings was about two or three miles south and a little to the west of the charted position. The other day, however, the Cambrian landed a party on the islands in order to take fresh observations. As a result, the Admiral has furnished the Marine Department with further information, which gives the position of the islands rs being only a mile and a-quarter south and one-third of a mile east of the charted position. This makes a difference of about a mile and a-quarter in latitude and one mile in longitude between the Cambrian's first and second observations.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2983, 17 May 1911, Page 96
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