ISLAND REVEALED
THAWING OF A GREAT ICEBERG.
(UNHID FREES ASSOCIATION.—COPIRMET.)
(AUSWtAUAN - NEW KAI/AND CAIIB ASSOCIATION.)
, ■ CHEISTIANIA, Ist September. A Norwegian captain, Wiktor Arnesen, who has '.just returned from the Arctic, claims that he discovered an island 12. miles in circumference, near Franz Joseph Island, in latitude SOdeg. 40niin. It was previously hidden by an iceberg between 70 and 80 feet higbj which has melted, showing the exceptional nature of tha recent thawing in the Arctic.
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Evening Post, Volume 55, Issue 55, 3 September 1923, Page 7
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75ISLAND REVEALED Evening Post, Volume 55, Issue 55, 3 September 1923, Page 7
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