ANTARCTIC LANDS
GERMANY TO CLAIM 230,000 SQUARE MILES. LAND HITHERTO SAID TO BE NORWAY’S. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. BERLIN, April 11. Following the Schwabenland Expedition’s return to Cuxhaven, Germany is expected to claim 230,000 square miles of the Antarctic, hitherto claimed by Norway. The expedition reports that the territory constitutes geologically a separate land bounded by an icefield rising to twelve thousand feet and the polar icecap. It adds that the westernmost point charted is 71 degrees 33 minutes south and four degrees 50 minutes west and the easternmost point was 72 degrees 10 minutes south and 16 degrees 30 minutes east.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 April 1939, Page 4
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