It would reach Japan via the aleutians and a relay-ship, by wire from Japan to all Asia and-again relayed-to Australia.
"Long Ago, Far Away"
William Fitzgerald Jenkins AKA Murray Leinster
We're nigh one of the aleutians, an' Bering Strait is full of ice.
"A Man to His Mate"
J. Allan Dunn
And, out of the north, before the wind, the sea advanced in the long, smooth folds of a weighty swell over which the Karluk wore her way into the breeze, clawing steadily on to the aleutians and a passage through to Bering Strait.
"A Man to His Mate"
J. Allan Dunn