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A DEEP ANCHORAGE GERMAN SHIP’S DISCOVERY. BERLIN, Aug. 11. The German exploration vessel Meteor has returned to Germany after two and a-quarter years of work in the Atlantic. In a lecture given at the banquet by the Geographical Society of Berlin in honour of Captain Spicss, the commander of the vessel, and his scientific staff, Captain Spiess described their thirteen voyages across the Atlantic between the coasts of South America and Africa in the course of South America, and Africa in the course of which 10,000 double observations as to the proportion of salt and the temperature of the water were made. The exploration of the upper strata of the air was carried out by twenty-one flights of kites and 812 ascents of pilot-balloons. Thanks to a new anchorage device, the Meteor was able to anchor in depths up to 3 J miles. The greatest depth discovered in the Southern Atlantic was in the South Sandwich Deeps, where the lead showed a few yards over five miles. The expedition brought home a vast amount of material, the thorough study of which will require several years.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19920, 16 August 1927, Page 8
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188STUDY AT SEA Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19920, 16 August 1927, Page 8
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