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and we may confidently expect to be in almost daily com- 

 munication with Dr. Mawson for the rest of his sojourn in 

 Antarctica. It is no less wonderful than true that some 

 of Mawson's messages are heard direct in Sydney all the 

 way from Antarctica, and this result is attained with a 

 installation of only two kilowatt power. 



This is not only a triumph for the Australasian Antarctic 

 Expedition and for all those who were concerned in the 

 wireless installation, including Sawyer and Sandell, the 

 wireless operators at Macquarie Island, but in view of the 

 Roaring Forty Winds, and the most formidable low pressure 

 atmospheric trough in the whole world which these mes- 

 sages have to cross, it is a signal triumph for wireless 

 telegraphy, in every way worthy o£ being singled out as a 

 subject for special congratulation by His Majesty the King 

 in his recent wireless message to Mawson. 



The geographical exploration under conditions of extreme 

 hardship and peril, accomplished by Mr. Frank Wild and 

 his parties, comprising Dr. Sydney Jones, Messrs. A. D. 

 Watson, G. H. S. Dovers, O. A. Hoadley, C. T. Harrison, 

 A. L. Kennedy, and M. H. Moyes, yields in no respect to 

 the best type of exploration in other parts of Antarctica 

 where similar climatic conditions obtain. 



Coast lines and islands entirely new to science have been 

 mapped for a distance of 300 miles, and meteorological and 

 glacial observations of great interest and value have been 

 recorded. Nor must we overlook the splendid voyages 

 accomplished by that modest, and, while the youngest 

 certainly not the least successful of Antarctic navigators, 

 Captain J. K. Davis. Amongst other scientific results such 

 as the charting of new coast lines, he has discovered what 

 maybe termed an Australian "Atlantis " in the large sub- 

 marine bank 250 miles south of Tasmania. Moreover he 



