SOUTH POLAR AREAS
BRITAIN'S CLAIMS AN AMERICAN VIEW Press Association—Bj Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, August o. (Received August 6, at 10 a.m.) Many of Britain’s claims in the Antarctic, particularly in the Falkland Island dependencies and the Ross Sea Dependency, are challengeable on the bases of the right of discovery, Mrs Laura Martin, geologist and geographer, of Washington, told members of the Institute of Politics, now meeting at Williamstown (Mass.). She said that Britain had asserted dominion over several of the Polar areas extending beyond the parts discovered by Englishmen. She cited Wilkes Land, part of the segment discovered by Lieutenant Wilkes, of the United States Navy, in 1840, although it was explored more fully by the Australian expedition of 1911-12. If Britain should prosecute these claims as she had done in the Falkland and Ross Dependencies, it could bo seen altogether that she’claimed nearly three-fifths of the continent, or 3,000,000 out of 5,000,000 square miles.
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Evening Star, Issue 20555, 6 August 1930, Page 12
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