ANTARCTIC LAND
FRANCE CLAIMS HUGE AREA POSSIBLE FUTURE AIR BASES. EXAMPLE TAKEN FROM BRITAIN AND AMERICA. (Recd This Day, 12.5 p.m.) LONDON. April 19. The “Daily Telegraph's" Paris correspondent says the Government has published a decree claiming a huge tract of land within the Antarctic Circle, with a view to the possibility of establishing air bases in the future. This follows the recent example of Britain and the United States in occupying Pacific Islands for a similar purpose. The French decree refers to all land between 136 degrees and 143 degrees east and south of the sixtieth parallel of latitude, as far as the South Pole. Much of this territory is unexplored, but it includes Adelie Land, which was claimed for France in 1840 by the explorer Dumont D’Urville.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 April 1938, Page 8
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129ANTARCTIC LAND Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 April 1938, Page 8
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