SOUTH SEA ISLANDS
AN AMERICAN EXPEDITION A semi-scientific expedition on a yacht will leave San Francisco in February next year with a party of 14 scientists, naturalists, photographers and sportsmen for a year’s tour.of tho South Seas. Tho leader will be Mr.. Murray N. Fay, who spent 18 months in the South Seas at the. head of the successful Narwhal expedition in 1923 and 1924. The expedition will travel about 40,0C0 miles in the year, and will visit New Zealand. Flans have been made to spend 100 days at sea and 250 (lavs at. the various places of interest. The expedition is tho result of seven years’ planning by Mr. Fay. Special equipment has been designed to meet the conditions which will be encountered, and undersea and sound photographic equipment has been purchased.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17909, 13 October 1932, Page 9
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133SOUTH SEA ISLANDS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17909, 13 October 1932, Page 9
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