SOUTHERN LANDS.

Wairarapa Age, 7 August 1930, Page 2

SOUTHERN LANDS.

GREAT BRITAIN’S ANTARCTIC CLAIMS. CHALLENGED BY UNITED STATES. BASIS OF BIGHT OF DISCOVERY. WILLIAMSTOWN (Mass.), Aug. 5. "Many of Britain’s claims in the Antarctic, particularly in the Falkland Island Dependencies and the Ross Dependency, are challengeable on the basis of right of discovery,” Mrs. Laura Martin, geologist and geographer, of Washington, told the members of the Institute of Politics nowmeeting here. She said that Britain asserted dominion over several Polar areas extending beyond the parts discovered by Englishmen. She cited Wilkcsland, part of the segment discovered by Lieutenant Wilkes, of the U.S. Navy, in 1840, although explored more fully by the Australian Expedition of 1911-12. If Britain should project these claims to the Pole, as she had done in the Falkland and Ross Dependencies, it could be seen that altogether she would claim nearly three-fifths of the continent, 3,000,000 out of 5,000,000 square miles.