“Under the ice in the Arctic are probably the weirdest and yet most wonderful and beautiful scenes it is possible to see,” remarked Sir Hubert Wilkins, the famous polar explorer, in an interview with a Waikato Times reporter. Sir Hubert referred to an incident during the Nautilus expedition i.. 1930-31, when the bottom dropped out of a harbour, taking one of his boats with it. This phenomenon was due to a volcanic upheaval, and all the boats were nearly swamped by the subsequent tidal wave. After the subsidence it was found that. a crater 15 miles long and 7 miles wide, with lips 5000 feet high, had been formed.
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Southland Times, Issue 22295, 10 April 1934, Page 5
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