MANY ANTARCTIC CLAIMS

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 260, 1 August 1939, Page 9

MANY ANTARCTIC CLAIMS

Consolidation By Britain Urged

EXPEDITION STILL NEEDS FUNDS By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. LONDON, July 30. Mr. Ernest W. Walker, a member of the 1937-39 British Antarctic exploration expedition, urges that, in view of the dispatch of Rear-Admiral Byrd's American expedition to establish and permanently occupy three colonies;' Britain should* consolidate her interests starting at the end of September, because she would lose her possessions in the Western Ross Sea dependency if America established a third colony in Little America, some hundreds of niiles’-inside the area of the dependency. '-The cost of the British expedition was ; £50,000, which was not yet forthcoming. Changes of sovereignty in the Antarctic, he said, might seriously affect the £10.000,000 British whaling industry. Germany had made an Antarctica.claim early in 1939, and Russia ast’d Japan were to send out expeditions in the coming season.