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REGARDING the magnetic storm and the auroral display of June 17, 1915, referred to by Prof. Barnard and Father A. L. Cortie (see NATURE, vol. xcv., pp. 450, 536, etc.), it may be of interest to place on record the following facts. Independent reports presented by Mr. Tulloch, the meteorological observer, and Mr. Henderson, the wireless operator, at Macquarie Island, lat. 55°S., each mention the Aurora Australis of that date as the most brilliant noted in periods of one year and two years respectively. It was also the only occasion in two years when it was absolutely impossible to receive signals from any other station—even the high-power plant at Awanui, near Auckland (New Zealand), which seldom failed to make itself heard.
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HUNT, H. The Great Aurora of June 17, 1915. Nature 97, 421–422 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/097421c0
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