THE ANTARCTIC
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 meterologists were now able to predict the coming of Antarctic storms, would alone amply justify over and over again the cost of Dr Mawson’s expedition. If they saved only one shipwreck a year that wireless station was worth what it had cost. 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 are being completed for an Austrian Antarctic expedition, which is to cost £25,000. It is proposed to start in May, 1914, and the expedition will be under Doctor Felix Koenig, who was a member of Lieutenant Filchner’s Arctic Expedition. Lieutenant Filchner’s ship has been purchased for £8256.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3103, 3 September 1913, Page 26
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