ANTARCTIC SOVEREIGNTY
BID BY ARGENTINA BYRD’S CLAIMS OPPOSED (Reed. July 26, 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 25. The Buenos Aires correspondent ol the New York Times says that Argentina will make a strong bid for the ownership of approximately a seventh of the Antarctic region at an international conference of Arctic explorers in Bergen, Norway, in 1940. She is preparing vigorously to oppose any attempt by the United States to extend the Monroe Doctrine into the Antarctic regions as a result ul the new Byrd expedition and at the same time will dispute the British claims to the South Orkneys, South Georgia, South Shetland Island. Grahamland, and all other islands .n the vicinity of the Weddell Sea. Argentina claims that her sovereignty embraces more than a quarter of the region which Rear-Admiral Byrd assigned 'to the Monroe Doctrine on June 7, contending that this region clear to the South Pole is a natural geographic dependency of the South American Continent.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19999, 26 July 1939, Page 5
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160ANTARCTIC SOVEREIGNTY Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19999, 26 July 1939, Page 5
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