NEW LAND SEEN.
ANTARCTIC DISCOVERY.
(Received 0.30 a.m.) OSLO, February 22. A wireless message from the captain of the Norwegian, schooner Norvegia says that airmen in a seaplane traced the coastline of a new land in the Antarctic about 500 miles south-west of lender by Land from TO degrees 30 minutes south by 24 degrees 13 minutes east to 88 degrees 40 minutes south by 33 degrees 30 minutes east. The flyers dropped a flag of occupation and documents establishing Norway's possession of the land, which has been named Princess Ragnhild's Land after the baby Princess.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 45, 23 February 1931, Page 7
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