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Southland Times, Issue 18984, 19 November 1920, Page 6

NO RAIN IN ANTARCTIC ALWAYS DRY SNOW FALLS. Antarctic exploration continues to exert a charm over the public, not because of it? novelty, but on account of the solution of its great mysteries at the hands of scientists. Among the curious polar phenomena hitherto beyond the ken of average human imagination, said Sir Douglas Mawson, in a lecture in Adelaide, was the'fact mentioned by the lecturer, that it had never been known to rain in the. antarctic. It was always dry snow that fell. He also remarked that many people once believed that the whole of the antarctic region was a vast accumulation of floating ice. Now, however it was definitely known that there existed a stratum of solid rock. Seme day, w hen the climate of the earth possibly got warmer, the great ice formation, at least 1000 ft deep in places, would melt, and reveal whether or not the so-called Antarctic Continent was a poup of rocky islands buried beneath an ice cap. Sir Douglas explained that the average temperature at the South Pole was 50deg. colder than that at the North Pole. “Doesn’t the Floorcloth look lovely after you’ve polished it with “KEEP SMILING LINO POLISH?” It takes lees time and saves backaches! —(AdvtJ