Chile’s Third Base Established in Antarctic
(Received September 30, 10.0 p.m.) SANTIAGO (Chile), Sept. 29 Chile announced to-day that she would establish a third base in the Antarctic. _ The first was established on Greenwich Island in 1947, and the second on Grahamland, in February. President Gonzalez said to-day that the new base, which is to be in tne interior, and used as a weather station, was designed “to maintain our rights and sovereignty m that region.
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Grey River Argus, 1 October 1948, Page 5
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