DISCOVERY OF NEW LANDS
SIR D. MAWSON’S EXPEDITION. OBSERVATIONS FROM AEROPLANE. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Sydney, Jan. 4. A dispatch from Sir Douglas Mawson states that after crossing the D’Urville Sea the Discovery arrived off Cape Robert, which is the extreme western point of the lands, seen by Admiral D’Urville in 1840. An aeroplane was sent up and the airmen observed new land extending westward from Cape Bickerton towards the eastern extremity of the laid sighted by the captain in the Aurora in 1912 and then named Wilkes Land. Nothing has yet been seen of y the Boating barrier ice which existed in 1840.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 January 1931, Page 10
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