NEW LAND DISCOVERED
ELLSWORTH EXPEDITION CLAIMED FOR AMERICA NEW YORK, Jan. 12. (Received Jan. 12, at 11 p.m.) “Eighty thousand square-miles of land never seen before by human eyes have been added to the known area of the world’s surface, and, following the precedent set in earlier discoveries, I claimed the area for the United States,” says Mr Lincoln Ellsworth, in a North American Newspaper Alliance copyright message. “ I have just completed a flight on which I could see to latitude 74.30 south on longitude 79 east, and as our altitude '•in the flight was nearly 12,000 feet and visibility perfect I could see at least 150 miles on each side from the plane. There are no mountains in this entire area, and although it is covered with snow it might some years hence become free of snow and disclose rich mineral deposits.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23706, 13 January 1939, Page 7
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