WRANGEL ISLAND
AN AMERICAN CLAIM.
Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright, NEW YORK, June 19.
(Received June 20, at 5.5 p.m.) A report from Rome states that Captain Lave on board the American schooner Herman left there on Tuesday to raise the Stars and Stripes over Wrangel Island, claiming it for America.—Sydney Sun Cable.
Wrangcl Island, in the Arctic Ocean off the north-east coast of Siberia, was discovered by James Long in 1849, and was occupied by the shipwrecked members of Dr Stefansson’s Arctic expedition in 1914. On September 21, 1921, the British flag was hoisted on the island by an expedition despatched by Stefansson, the annexation being notified to the Government of Canada on March 17, 1922, but Canada announced recently that she did not intend to set up any claim to the possession of the island., It may be recalled that last year a relief expedition was despatched to the island, but the party left there is assumed fo have perished. The island is the resort of polar bears.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19204, 21 June 1924, Page 9
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