NEW LAND IN THE ARCTIC.
REPORTED DISCOVERY NORTH OF SIBERIA. By Telegraph—Press ABsoolatlon-OoDTrijM "Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables. St. Petersburg, Octob'or 14. A Russian oxploring party has discovered _ a new land north of Siberia, extending for two hundred miles in a north-west direction to latitudo 81deg. north, Ipngitude 96deg. east.
Juneau (Alaska), October 14. Captain Sverdrup, commander of Dr. Nansen's Arctic exploration ship, thinks tho story of tho reported discovery of a' now Arctic continent is untrue. Dr. Nansen, he says, drifted over tho area discovered, and found nothing but water. Small islands might havo been found, but any extensive area should havo been long ago discovered.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1882, 16 October 1913, Page 7
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106NEW LAND IN THE ARCTIC. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1882, 16 October 1913, Page 7
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