PEGS INTO ANTARCTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1014, 3 July 1930, Page 12

PEGS INTO ANTARCTIC

AMERICA’S CLAIMS URGED BY SENATOR FEARS BRITAIN'S PRIORITY WASHINGTON, Tuesday. In proposing that the Secretary of State be authorised to claim Antarctic lauds discovered by Byrd and other American explorers, Senator M. E. Tydings said he proposed action because Britain had laid claims to much of Antarctica, although those regions included two areas discovered by American naval officers as early as 1820 and 1840. Mr. Tydings sketched the activities of Palmer and of Wilkes, whose dis covery-—Wilkes Land—had actually been placed under the administration of the Governor-General of Australia No sweeping claim had been made by Britain until 1926, when Australia, at the Imperial Couference, claimed the coastland outside the Falkland dependencies, Enderby Land, Kemp Land, Queen Mary Land, George V. Land, Oates Land and the area west of Adele Land, which on its discovery by ,an Australian expedition in 1912 was named Wilkes Land. It is believed that whatever action may be taken will not eventuate before Byrd lodges his report and this is

studied thoroughly by United States officials.