Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 23 June 1937Vol. VII, No. 11

Solar Eclipse In Central

p. 77 · Read in the full issue

Page 7777

Pacific

A TOTAL solar eclipse was witnessed on June 8 in the Central Pacific. It occurred in the early morning and the period of totality was three minutes.

The eclipse was observed by two scien tific expeditions, one from the United States and one from New Zealand, on Canton Island, in the Phoenix Group.

They obtained prefect pictures of the phenomenon; and, incidentally, the friendliest relations developed between the representatives of the two nations.

The New Zealand party travelled on the naval sloop Wellington, and the Americans on the ship Avocct.

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