SURVEY OF LABRADOR COAST
LONDON, April 13. Lieutenant K. E. Oom, who accompanied Sir Douglas Mawson’s Antarctic expedition, has sailed in the survey ship Challenger from Portsmouth for Labrador, via the West Indies, to survey the dangerous coast of Labrador. Ten members of the crow will put ashore in Labrador to lemain for nine months without relief. Lieutenant Oom is unable to accept nomination to stay witli the landing party, as he is due to return to Australia before the breaking of Ihe ice allows the party to be taken off the coast in July, 1934.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18068, 20 April 1933, Page 4
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