LAND FOUND BY MR ELLSWORTH
Area Of 80.000 Square
Miles
OWNERSHIP BY UNITED STATES CLAIMED
(United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Received January 12, 8.40 p.m.) NEW YORK, January 12. “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 pce-
cedent set in earlier discoveries, I have 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 of longitude 79 East and as our altitude in the flight was nearly 12,000 feet and the visibility perfect, I could see at least 150 miles on each side from the aeroplane. There are no mountains in this entire area and, although snow covered, it might some years hence become snow free and disclose rich mineral deposits.”
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Southland Times, Issue 23715, 13 January 1939, Page 7
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152LAND FOUND BY MR ELLSWORTH Southland Times, Issue 23715, 13 January 1939, Page 7
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