ARGENTINE CLAIMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 21, 25 July 1939, Page 10

ARGENTINE CLAIMS

ANTARCTIC AREA

OUTSIDE MONROE DOCTRINE

(Received July 25, 1.40 ■p.m.)

NEW YORK, July 24.-

The Buenos Aires correspondent of | the "New York Times" says Argentina will make a strong bid for ownership of approximately a seventh of the Antarctic region at the international conference of Arctic explorers at Bergen, Norway, in 1940. She is preparing vigorously to oppose any attempt by the United States to extend the Monroe Doctrine into the Antarctic regions as a result of the new Byrd expedition. l' At the same time, Argentina will dispute British claims to the South Orkney Islands, South Georgia, South Shetland Island, Grahamland, and all other islands in the vicinity of the Weddell Sea. '

Argentina claims sovereignty over an area which embraces more than a quarter df the region to which RearAdmiral Byrd assigned the, Monroe Doctrine, contending that this region, clear to the South Pole, is a natural geographic dependency of the South American continent.