WRANGEL ISLAND
soviet colonising expedition New York, July 11. Advices from Nome state that a Soviet ice-breaking steamer is on the way to Wrangel Island with twenty families of Siberian Eskimo colonists, a hundred dogs, twenty-five reindeer, and provisions for three y'ears. This is the first step in a Soviet colonising expedition on an extensive scale.—Sydney "Sun” Cable. [Wrangel Island, lying north of the eastern extremity of Siberia, in recent years has gained international importance as the possible half-way house between Europe and Asia, via the North Polar air route. Stefansson planted the British flag there, claiming the island for Canada, but no effective occupation followed.]
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 256, 13 July 1926, Page 11
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106WRANGEL ISLAND Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 256, 13 July 1926, Page 11
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