ANTARCTIC LANDS
REPORTED GERMAN DISCOVERY. BIG AREA SURVEYED. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) BERLIN, March 30. Captain, Paul Ritscher surveyed 232,000 square miles. He estimates that the geographical pole is 9500 feet above sea level.
Captain Ritscher, operating by aeroplane, claimed the discovery of an Antarctic continent between 5 degrees west.and 15 degrees east longitude and extending, inland to 75 degrees south latitude, including mountain ■ranges and a high central Polar massif.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 March 1939, Page 5
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