WEATHER FORECASTS
HUBERT WILKINS’S PLANS United Press Association—By Klee trie Telegraph—Copyright TORONTO, April 30. Sir Hubert Wilkins, the polar -explorer, interviewed en route to Winnipeg, said that he intends to establish a submarine station at the Pole of Inaccessibility, 400 miles from the North Pole, and one of the key spots of the world’s meteorological map. After some 27 stations in the Arctic and 12 in the Antarctic are established, the meteorological map will be complete enough to forecast the character of the seasons with a degree of accuracy that hitherto has been unknown. He declared that submarine methods had been chosen for this particular spot because it was the most convenient for sending in supplies. In the water under the ice it was.warmer than in the air above, making it possible for men to live under the sea in comparative comfort, noting currents and the conduct of the water beneath, and coming up to see how the wind was blowing.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20097, 2 May 1935, Page 9
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161WEATHER FORECASTS Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20097, 2 May 1935, Page 9
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