GREATER TASMANIA.
EXTENSION TO SOUTH FUU
Tasmania is by far the smallest State in the Commonwealth, but it may soon he one of the largest; Fired by the example of New Zealand, the Premier, Mr. Lyons, is negotiating with the British Government for the proclamation of a protectorate over all the,rocks, islands, icebergs and 1 icefields to the south of Tasmania and of Macquario Island l as far as tho South Pole.
New Zealand a year or two ago adopted the same eouree about the region of tho Ross Sea, from which a Norwegian whaling expedition last summer obtained whale oil and whale products to the value of £137,000. With Hobart made a. free port for whaling vessels, Tasmania hopes to sec its slico of the Antarctic rcgioiib become a. great whaling ground. Macqua.rie Island in 55 degrees south has long been a dependency of Tasmania, and is a kind of half-way house to the Antarctic. If the triangle of Antarctica Iving to the south of a line drawn from Tasmania and Now Zealand, and extending as far as the Pole, is annexed to Tasmania, the alleged "Speck" will have an area of several hundreds of thousands of square miles—-most!v under ice.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16606, 9 December 1924, Page 9
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