SOUTH WITH MAWSON

Southland Times, Issue 21001, 6 February 1930, Page 6

SOUTH WITH MAWSON

REMARKABLE MARINE DISCOVERIES. PECULIARITIES OF POLAR FISH. (All Rights Reserved.) Sydney, February 5. A wireless from Sir Douglas Mawson, dated January 28, states: “During the last few days we have been busy running the marine section in full detail as we have proceeded northward from -Enderby Land coast into the deep basin of the southern ocean. To-day we are in latitude 63/50 south, longitude 54/16 east. Operations have been carried out in water fifty-three to fifty-four metres deep. A special feature has been the richness in nekton of waters 1000 metres below the surface, whence a large variety of fish have been netted. Some are quite extraordinary in form. Blue whales are abundant, and icebergs are also plentiful, but show the effects of the warmer waters, being reduced from compact tabular forms of the continental shelf region to spired and turreted shapes often of striking grandeur. One such has just passed. We measured it and found it to be 250 feet high.”