LAND IN ANTARCTIC
CLAIM BY GERMANS RETURN OF EXPEDITION (Received April 12, 5.5 p.m.) BERLIN, April 11 Following upon the Schwabenland expedition's return to Cuxhaven, Germany is expected to claim 230,000 square miles in the Antarctic hitherto claimed by Norway. The expedition reports that the territory constitutes a geologically separate land niass bounded by ail ice-field which rises to 12,000 ft. on the Polar ice-cap. The most westerly point charted wag 71 degrees 23 minutes south, 4 degrees 50 minutes west, and the most easterly point was 72 degrees 10 minutes south, 16 degrees 30 minutes east.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23320, 13 April 1939, Page 11
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97LAND IN ANTARCTIC New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23320, 13 April 1939, Page 11
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