Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 224, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1915 — Wireless Station for Antarctic. [ARTICLE]

Wireless Station for Antarctic.

One of the objects of Sir E- Shackleton’s present South polar expedition is to establish a wireless station in the Antarctic, the staff to be relieved once a year. The main purpose of the station would be to keep the civilized world acquainted with the meteorological conditions around the pole. Theoretically the power of such a station need not be very great for longdistance transmission, but during Captain Scott’s Antarctic investigations it was discovered that the Aurora austtralis (the South pole equivalent of the aurora borealis in high northern latitudes), by “damping” the ether waves, somewhat counterbalanced the lessened interference of sunshine.