The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-10-16
RUSSIANS LOCATE
NEW ARCTIC LAND

ST. Petersburg, Oct. decentralization
of discovery of new and in the Arctic
ocean was received by the Russian adj
miralty today in a brief official wire
less report from Commander Wilkitzky
of the Russian a v
The new land extends in a narrow
strip from, about SO miles north of
Cape TchelyusSin, also known as
Northeast Cape, the northern termina-
ton Of the Asiatic continent, to 81 de-
grees north.
The admiralty expedition, on board
the transports Taimyr and Waingatch,
left ~Vladivostok, in July last and sur
lveyed the coast from Kolyma to Cape
Tchelyuskin.
: Commander Wilkitzky is a son of the
famous photographer, who died last
year. He wanted to go west to the
river Yenesei to winter, but met with
solid ice and on this account pro-
iceeded in a n~ortherly direction, where
he discovered land extending for 200
nautical miles.
The expedition was then compelled
by the ice to return toward the east.
When passing Bennett Island in lati-
itude 76.40, north longitude 1880 east,
they found the diaries and documents
of the in-starred expedition under
Baron Toll, which was lost in 1900.
They also discovered a new island.
The expeditions under Baron Nordel-
skiold. Fridtjof Nansen n Baron Toll
passed cape lChSlSdShlI anu
the newly discovered laad without no
ticing its presence.
The discovery of the new land is re-
garded as having the most important
bearing on ice conditions in the Kara
sea.
Admiral Peary and other arctic explor-
ers ave believed that a large body OF
land, almost a continent, existed IN the
polar regions. The Canadian government
had so much faith in the theory of Peary,
.Stefansson and other explorers that last
summer it sent vilhjaln1ar stefanason
Epedition that ever entered the ice.
Three Of Stefansson's boats are frozen
In the ice pack near Point Barrow, Alas
Fka. Two Of these boats carried supplies
which were to be landed at depots east OF
the mouth of Mackenzie. The third was
to explore the mainland an q ana siands , al
IStefansson himself, with the whaler Kar-
LUX, got away safely from Point Barrow
known continent which the Russian ex.
pedition that arrived at st. Michael re,
ports having discovered.
ST. Michael, Alaska, Oct. 13.-The
Russian flagship Taimyr and its con
sort, the Waygatch, which constitute q
Russian polar expedition under Com
mander Wilkitzky, which left Vladi-
vostok June 10, of this year, reached
ST. Michael stormbound October 9 an6
brought to this port news of the dis
coveTy north Of Siberia in latitude 81
north, longitude, 1o4 east, of a new
u~ninllabited, mountainous land, pos
sibly a continent. The expedition
handed with difficr!t+ on the new land
raising the Russian flag on it and tool
possession in the name of the car
Commander Wilkitzky christened The
new land Nicholas Second Land"
DISCOVERY IMPORTANT,
OFFICIALS DECLARE
Washington, D. c.. Oct. lA.-Mem
beers OF the National Geographical so
Iciety said today that the reported
Russian discovery of a continent 50(
miles north of Asia, if true, would be
the last great discovery of land. They
pronounced it the most important dis
Ecovery within the Arctic circle in the
last century.
The report from ST. Michael's
Alaska, that Commander Wilkitzky, IL
command of the Russian steamer:
Taimyr and Waygatch, had arrived
there and announced the discovery OF {
body of land as large as Greenland
extending beyond latitude 81 north an
longitude 1O2 east, came as a distinc
surprise to the members of the society
Mai. Gen. A. w. Greedy, Arctic ex'
plorer and scientist, thinks some erro
must have been made in describing tn
location of the newly found continent
The general said today that on Decern'
Der IS. 1894, the Fran, in which Dr
Nansen drifted in the Arctic regions
was in latitude $3.50 longitude 104, jus
- a little north Of where the southerl
extremity of the land reported dis
covered is said to be.