ANTARCTIC LANDS
HUGE AREA EXPLORED BY ELLSWORTH.
CLAIMED FOR UNITED STATES.
NEW YORK, January 12.
“Eighty thousand square miles of land never seen before by human eyes has been added to the known area of
the world's surface, and. following the precedent set by earlier discoveries, I have claimed this area for the United States,” says a copyright message from the explorer Lincoln Elisworthy, who. with Sir Hubert Wilkins, is on an expedition to the Antarctic. “I have just completed a flight, on which I could see to latitude 74.30 south, on longtitude 79 east, and, as our altitude in the flight was nearly 12.009 feet and the visibility perfect, I could see at leas* 150 miles on each side from the plane. “There are no mountains ! n this entire area, and though it is snow-cover-ed, it might some years hence become free of snow and disclose rich mineral deposits.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 January 1939, Page 5
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