IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES
COAST MOUNTAINS. (Received March 25, 8.25 a.m.) ' LONDON, March 24. Judging from the violent blizzards in latitude 88, if a polar calm -exists it is small in area and not coincident with the geographical pole. Good zoological and geological discoveries were made. Lieut. Shackleton, on board the Nimrod, .aftpr encountering the pack of ice, discovered from a position in 69 degFees, 48 minutes, longitude 166, 11 minutes, a new range of coast mountains tending towards the south-west then west for 45 miles beyond Cape North.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13921, 25 March 1909, Page 5
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87IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13921, 25 March 1909, Page 5
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