ANTARCTIC LANDS
VAST AREA ACCEPTED BY AUSTRALIA United Press Association - By Electric Telegraph —Copyright (Received August 23, 6.30 p.m.) CANBERRA, August, 22. A proclamation will be issued next week bringing into operation an Act passed by the Commonwealth Parliament in 1933, providing for the acceptance by the Commonwealth of an area of three million square miles m the Antarctic, to be known in future, as the Australian Antarctic Territory. This territory comprises all the islands and territories (except the French dependency of Adelie Land) situated south -f the sixteenth degree of south latitude and between the hundred and sixtieth degree and the forty-fifth degree of east longitude.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20504, 24 August 1936, Page 7
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107ANTARCTIC LANDS Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20504, 24 August 1936, Page 7
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