STRANDED ON ISLAND
NINE DANISH SCIENTISTS. KETCH LOST IN PACIFIC. SYDNEY, Sept. 4. Nine Danish scientists are stranded on the small island of Vanikoro. 200 miles east of the Solomons. Their ketch foundered on August 17, on a coral reef. Employees of a Melbourne company on the island have a wireless transmitting set with which the scientists have sent out an appeal for help to the Consul General for Denmark in Sydney. Only one ship goes to Vanikoro. It is owned by a Victorian timber company, ami its next visit will be ir. November.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 210, 5 September 1934, Page 7
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94STRANDED ON ISLAND Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 210, 5 September 1934, Page 7
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