NEW WORLD MAP

Southland Times, Issue 20538, 14 July 1928, Page 7

NEW WORLD MAP

CHECKING PROCESS IMPORTANT GEOGRAPHICAL WORK CONGRESS AT CAMBRIDGE (United Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) Rugby, July 12. Leading geographers from 47 countries are attending the Congress to be held next week at Cambridge under the auspices of the International Geographical Union. Many delegates are being received by the King at Buckingham Palace. Among other events of the visit are the reception by the Royal Geographical Society, another by the Lord Mayor at the Guildhall, at which the Prince of Wales will be present, and a banquet at Cambridge, over which the Foreign Secretary will preside. A particularly interesting feature of the Congress will be the examination of the sections of the new world map upon which the experts have been engaged for many years. Wireless has played an important part in its completion. Fifty-two observatories scattered over the face of the globe and representing 30 nations have taken part in the task of verifying the world’s longitudes and in re-determining the configuration of the seas and continents. The principal stations for several weeks were exchanging radio telegraphic signals at the rate of 30 a day. Another factor in checking the world map has been the application of air photography to ordinary survey purposes. Representatives of the survey departments of the British colonies and the mandated territories are already in London and have been conferring on the methods of map making as well as administrative matters. Several of them are going to Cambridge for next week’s Congress.—British Official Wireless.