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ADMIRAL BYRD IN NEW YORK
LAND CLAIMED FOR U.S.A.
NEW.YOKE, 19th June.
Kear-Admiral Byrd, on his return from the Antarctic, had a most enthusiastic welcome by the City of New •York. . The New Zealand Trade Representative, Mr. Collins, who participated in the celebrations, described the city's welcome as magnificent and inspiring, and expressed, the hope that Eear-Ad-miral Byrd would continue his explorations in the Antarctic so that ho might again be welcomed in New Zealand.
Eear-Admiral Byrd stated in the course of an interview that he had claimed in the name of the United States 125,000 miles of land that the expedition had- dseovered. This la-nd lay beyond the claims of the British, being westward of tho 150 th meridian. The** British claimed lands that had not been settled, but he thought in regard to international law that the Antarctic might be different iv status from the rest of the world, where settlement was required.
He could not say whether the land the United States claimed had any value, though they had every reason to believe there were enormous deposits of coal down there. '
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 144, 21 June 1930, Page 9
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 144, 21 June 1930, Page 9
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