ANTARCTIC RESOURCES
MR ELLSWORTH’S CLAIMS
[BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.]
HOBART. February 5
"In a, great, desert of ice extending hundreds of miles in the south I saw areas where one day may be found rich, minerals and oils, as in the United States," declared Mr Lincoln Ellsworth on. his arrival in the Wyatt Earp f]cm the Antarctic to-day. On the vessel is her injured chief officer, MT Liavaag, whose knee was crushed in floating ice. He will undergo an operation in Hobart. Of his flight. Mr Ellsworth said: "When 1 left on this expedition 1. expected to find a rugged, mountainous land. Instead I found this desert of ice resembling a vast, plain gradually rising to 75(10 feet. Our aeroplane continued as far as 72 degrees south latitude, and the land 1 saw was totally different from that flown over mi the South American side of the Pole on. my 1035 expedition." Mr Ellsworth has claimed for the United Slates .SI.OOO square miles, north ol Princess Elizabeth Laud. His two visits to the Antarctic have gained for America more than 430,000 square miles.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 6 February 1939, Page 3
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