WRANGEL ISLAND
ESTABLISHING AMERICAN CLAIM. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPIRIGHT.) (SYDNEI SUN CABLE.) NEW YORK, 19th June. A report from Rome states: Captain Lave, on board the American schooner Herman, left here on Tuesday to raise the Star and Stripes over Wrangel Island, and claim it for America.'
[In September, 1921, Mr. Stefansson, the Arctic explorer, landed Mr. Alan R. Crawford and thaie other white men, with some Eskimos, on Wrangel Island, off the north-east coast of Siberia, to reassert British sovereignty, -which was claimed by Stefansson's expedition in 1914 under commission from the Canadian Government. The United States and Soviet Russia have also laid claim to the island. A relief expedition which reached Wrangel Island last year found that Mr. Crawford's party had all perished except an Eskimo cook. Mr. Stewart, Minister of the Interior, stated in the Ca.nr.dian Parliament in April that tho Dominion made no claim to sovereignty over Wrangel Island, and "also that Mr. Stefansson was no longer iv the pay of the Canadian Government.]
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 146, 21 June 1924, Page 7
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167WRANGEL ISLAND Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 146, 21 June 1924, Page 7
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