ANTARCTIC RESEARCH
DR MAWSON’S EXPEDITION. SYDNEY, November 18. Dr Mawson has sent a wireless message from Adelio Land stating that the first penguins of the season arrived on October 17. They killed a large sea leopard at the end of September, which landed immediately in front of the house. A heavy southerly swell on October 19 indicated that the pack-ice outside the bay had broken, and that the ice in Commonwealth Bay had thawed. The winter experienced was unusually severe, and there were heavy snow falls in spring- They were only now beginning to recover the stores which had been buried under the huge masses of snow. This had caused some inconvenience. They had been able to send time signals to Melbourne Observatory, which had enabled the longitude to be obtained very exactly. They had also made Auroral observations and* secured ‘ valuable information regarding the Aurora. All the members were well, but were anxious to return. Dr Mawson has sent a rvireless message expressing his deepest thanks for {Sir Robert Lucas-Tooth’s gift of £IOOO to the expedition. The greatest need, Dr Mawson explains, is a month’s silence. The wireless operators have much impeded the Antarctic Aurora—a fact which is quite new to fxienca.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3115, 26 November 1913, Page 26
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203ANTARCTIC RESEARCH Otago Witness, Issue 3115, 26 November 1913, Page 26
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