Eclipse
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To Observe Rare Solar
Two Expeditions Will Visit Lonely Phoenix Group
JOINTLY sponsored by the United States Navy Department and the National Geographical Society, an expe dition will leave America shortly for the Phoenix Islands, north of Western Samoa, to make observations of an eclipse of the sun which will occur on June 8. The eclipse will be the most remarkable and of the longest duration for 1200 years.
Plans have also been completed for a party from the New Zealand Astronomi cal Society to visit the Phoenix Group in one of the N.Z. warships to view the eclipse. It is reported that a number of Australian astronomers will probably join the N.Z. expedition.
The lonely Phoenix Group, comprising about a dozen small islands, are just south of the equator in mid-Pacific, and are on the direct route between Hawaii and Fiji. They will provide the only specks of land from which the total phase of the eclipse will be visible.