IMPORTANT OBSERVATIONS
WILKINS IN " ANTARCTICA. 'V : iK> : S;lv' : ''--,■;•' : ■ _____ ■■ •>M '■ '. BOUNDS OF GRAHAM LAND. ■ VIEW' OF MOUNTAIN RANGE. (Received 10.30 a.m;) "'■• | |* * LONDON, December 20. ' Wilkins/ in a copyright message, ■states; Graham Land is separated from the great Polar contrndiati-by an ice-field' channel. A .question has puzzled geographers; for ages was solved to-day by, a,, flight in a inoncplane bey'ond the volcanic mountains, in Graham Land,, enabling us to see .650 miles spuj&,.pver. ,I|he. " Antarctic Conltihent... ■■? ■ This. ~ proved-.conclusively that the 1 range* does not extend uninterruptedly] fit has previously been the belief ; fit science that the mountains in Gra* ham :Land/ extended to the Pole Jarid .perhaps^beyond. We disproved''that' to-day. We also gained an Mpbrtant sight 'of the ; geographical for-, matidn of' the .little-known land o£ -ice.' a'runway of half a .mile Jiad to be cleared through the snow; and the take-off was very difficult.—Aus- . traWa% 1 ,Pqress Assn., United Service.. :
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 5, 21 December 1928, Page 7
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