ANTARCTIC TERRITORY
CLAIM BY AUSTRALIA TITLE NEVER DISPUTED (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, 3rd October. British official comment on “Der AngrifT’s” attack on Australia is confined to the remainder of the area in the Antarctic, chiefly ice, incapable of supporting human activity. The Commonwealth’s title to the land there has not been disputed.
On Ist October the Conservative Party Conference at Margate enthusiastically adopted a resolution urging the Government to reaffirm Sir John Simon’s earlier intimation to Germany that the return of mandates is a question that cannot be discussed. On 22nd August it was reported from Canberra that a proclamation was to be issued bringing into operation an Act passed by the Commonwealth Parliament in 1933 providing for the acceptance by the Commonwealth of an area of 3,000,000 square miles in the Antarctic to be known in future as the Australian Antarctic Territory. This territory comprises all islands and territories except the French dependency of Adelie Land, situated south of the 60th degree of south latitude and between the 160th and 45th degrees of east longitude.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 5 October 1936, Page 6
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