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Aurora Australis

Nature volume 3, page 447 (1871)Cite this article

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OBSERVING in NATURE of Oct. 27, an account of a brilliant aurora observed in England on the 23rd to the 25th of that month, I think it may excite attention to the subject by informing your readers that at the same date a splendid display of Aurora Australis was recorded at most of the meteorological stations in this colony.

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    JAMES HECTOR

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HECTOR, J. Aurora Australis. Nature 3, 447 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/003447a0

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