SOUTH ATLANTIC ISLANDS
SIGHTED BY BRITISH VESSEL HITHERTO UNOBSERVED (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegrapli—Copyright.) RIO DE JANEIRO, June 15. The British cruiser Georgetown and a Brazilian warship are steaming today for two dots of land in the middle of the South Atlantic, to lay claim to hitherto unobserved islands which were reported on Saturday by the master of the British steamship Lelandp in latitude 27deg 20min west, longitude ,50deg north. The French may also be _ interested for the sake of their air mail route to Brazil.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21363, 17 June 1931, Page 7
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87SOUTH ATLANTIC ISLANDS Otago Daily Times, Issue 21363, 17 June 1931, Page 7
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