ANTARCTIC AREA
" CLAIMED FOR UNITED STATES
NEW YORK, January 12.
"Eighty thousand square miles x>f land never seen before by human eyes has been added to the known area of the world's surface, and, following the precedent sel by earlier discoveries, I have claimed this area for the United States," says a copyright message from the explorer Lincoln Ellsworth, who, with Sir Hubert Wilkins, is on an expedition to the Antarctic. "I have just completed a flight, on which I could see to latitude 74.30 south, on longitude 79 east, and, as our altitude in the flight was nearly 12,000 feet and the visibility perfect, I could see at least 150 miles on each side from the plane.
"There are no mountains in this entire area, and, though it is snow-cov-ered, it might some years hence become free of snow and disclose rich mineral deposits."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 10, 13 January 1939, Page 9
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145ANTARCTIC AREA Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 10, 13 January 1939, Page 9
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