LAND IN FROZEN SOUTH.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18609, 3 July 1930, Page 9

LAND IN FROZEN SOUTH.

Question Of Ownership. AMERICAN SENATOR S VIEWS. United Press Association—By Electric Tel egraph—Copyright WASHINGTON, July 1. Senator Rydings introduced a resolution to authorise the Secretary of State to claim the Antarctic lands which Admiral Byrd and other American explorers discovered. Senator Rydings said the Government would be lax in its duties if it did not lay claim to the lands Admiral Byrd had discovered, since they may he valuable in 50 or 100 years. Senator Rydings said that he proposed action, because Britain laid claims to much of the Antarctica, although these regions “include two areas discovered by American naval officers, as early as 1820 and 1840.” The Sen- | ator sketched the activities of Palmer and. Wilkes, whose discovery of Wilkes Land had actually been placed under the administration of the GovernorGeneral of Australia. He said that “no sweeping claim had been made by Britain until 1926, when Australia, at the Imperial Conferences, made claims to the coastline outside Falkland dependencies, Enderby Land, Kemp Land, Mary Land, George V. Land, Oates Land, and the area west of Adele Land.”

It is believed that whatever action may be taken, it will not occur before Admiral Byrd lodges his report, and this is studied thoroughly by officials.