Arizona republican., 1910-11-27
SEEING OF ANTART|C
 LANDS BY ENGLAND

l. Any nation desiring a slice of the new Antarctic lands had better lose
 no time in filing it's claim A great colonial power is already in the field.
 England has now appropriated some
 of the outlying islands and an area
 believed to be a part of the conti-
 mental mass. It has done this so : quietly as to attract little attention.
 The latest number of the Scottish | Geographical Magazine says that the British Government has published let | ters patent by which the island groups of South Georgia, South Ork-
 ney, South Shetland and South Sand wich, and also Graham Land, in that ' part of the Antarctic continent near | est to America, are declared to be dependency of the Falkland islands
 and to be under the jurisdiction of | their government. Hereafter, says the magazine. no whaler will be al- | lowed to fish in those coastal wat CTS or to make use of the harbors without buying an annual license at
 the Falkland islands.
 This is the first serious attempt
 to take possession of any consider
 able Antarctic area. The islands
 and the known continental coasts
 have been a no mans land. The
 only exception to this statement is
 South Georgia. which was annexed
 to the Falkland islands many years ago. England can base no consist
 ent claim to these land areas on the ground of priority of discovery, for
 her explorers were foremost there only in the Orkney and Sandwich
 ha -f.l- visited the large Shetland archipelago long before English sailors saw it, and Captain N B. Palmer. the young American sealer, brought to light the region of which the so-called Graham Land is a part
 Epgland has, in fact. claimed these outlying portions Of Antarctics simply because they are now the scene of a large revival of the whaling trade For three years Argentina and Nor wegian whalers have made their headquarters on South Georgia, from which they send out their vessels to kill whales and tow them to their station. There the oil is tried out and prepared for market, and many thousands of barrels have already been shipped, to Buenos Ayres and Europe
 Last fall the French explorer. Char cot, on his wsy south. stopped at Deception island. in the South Shet- | land group where he found 200 Nor !, wegians with ten whalers and other ] ships bringing coal to South Anne | rica or carrying whale oil to mar | ket The busy world to the north | is in touch with this fringe of Ant arctics. There is something to be gained in the far south This fact was discovered by Captain Larsen six years ago. and he kept his sec ret we'll till he had interested the Argentina and Norwegian firms which have established the present 
 So England extends her police regime over a large region where the penguin has held undisputed domain The world is not likely to dispute her action, but Americans would be glad to see among her initial meas ires in this region the fighting of a wrong committed by one of her sub iectS and ratified by her geographers
 British navagator in 1881. touch ing at a single point in the Antarc- tie. took from it the name of Palmer Land and substituted Graham Land. It would be an act of justice and courtesy if the name of its Ameri- an discovered should be restored to he land areas which he was the first o See. It was Admiral Bellinghausen. he famous Russian explorer. who gave the name Palmer Land to the arge region which the American York Sun.