The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1913-10-16
RUSSIANS LOCATE
NEW ARCTIC LAND

st Petersburg. Oct. decentralization
81 discovery Of new land In the Arctic
ocean was received by the Russian adj
thHaity today In a brief official Wtfe-
Iess report from Commander Wilkitzky
oI 2 Russian navy.
Ehe new land extends In q narrow
str1p from about so miles north OF
Sape Tchelyuskin, also known as
MoFtneast Cape, the northern termina-
grees north.
The admiralty expedition. on board
tne transports Taimyr and Waingatch,
lett vladivostok, In July last AMI sur
xeged the coast from Kolyma to Cape
TcheIyuskin.
Commander WiIkitzky IS a SON OF the
famous photographer, who died iaet
year. He wanted to go west 20 the
river Yenesei TO winter. but met Win
solid Ice and on this account pro-
ne discovered land extending Tor 2uu
nautical miles.
The expedition was then compelled
by the ice to return toward the east.
When passing Bennett Island IN Iati-
Jude 76.40. north longitude 1880 east
81 the m-starred expedition under
BarOn Toll. which was lost ~ 1900.
They also discovered q new Island
The expeditions under Baron Nordel-
skiold, Fridttof Nansen Baron Toll
passed between Cape Tchelyaskin and
the newly discovered land without mo-
rye discovery OF the new land IL re-
gafded as having the most Important
bearing on Ice conditions in h Kara
sea.
Admiral Peary and other arctic explor-
srs have believed that q large body OF
land. almost q continent existed In the
polar regions. The Canadian government
had so much faith In the theory OF FeaFys
hummer, 1t sent Vtlhjalmar Stefafsson
With the best equipment for 9 polar cx-
pedition that ever entered the Ice,
Three OF StefanSsonts boats are frozen
nj the ice pack near Point Barrow, Alas
ka. Two or these boats carried supplies
which were to be landed at depots east OF
ihe mouth OF Mackenzie. The third was
70 explore the mainland and islands al
ready known, east of the Mackenzie delta.
~Btefansson himself, with the whaler Kar-
lux, got away safely from Point Barrow
and steered for the north, seeking the un-
knovn continent which b Russian ex-
pedltion that arrived at St. Michae re-
ports having discovered.
st. Michael, Alaska, Oct. lathe
RUSSIAN fiagship Taimyr and Its con
sort, the Waygatch, which constitute O.
Russian polar expedition under Com
mander Wilkitzky, which left Vladt-
sostok June 40, Of this year. reached
ST. Michael stormbcund October 8 and
brought to this pert news of the dis.
eoYery north Of Siberia In latitude 81
north. longitude 104 east. of a new,
nninhabited, mountainous land, pos
sibly q continent. The expedition
landed with difficulty on the new land,
raising the Russian flag on it and took
possession In the name of the car.
Commander Wilkitzky christened the
aew land Nicholas Second Land
DISCOVERY IMPORTANT,
OFFICIALS DECLARE
washington, ID. c., Oct. 1L,-Mem-
bers OF the National Geographical so
ciety said today that the reported
Russian discovery Of a continent 500
mtlee north of Asia, IL true, would be
the last great discovery OF land. They
pronounced 1t the most important dis
Goyery within the Arctic circle in the
last century.
Alaska, that Commander Wllkitzky, in
command OF the Russian steamers
Taimyr and Waygatch. had arrived
there and announced the discovery OF a
body OF land as large as Greenland,
extending beyond latitude 81 north and
Longitude 102 east, came as b distinct
surprise to the members OF the society,
Maj. Gen. Al. w. Greedy, Arctic ex-
plcwer and scientist, thinks some error
must have been made In describing the
location OF the newly found continent.
The general said today that on Decem-
beT rs, 1884, the Fran, in which DIR.
Nansen drifted in the Arctic regions,
was In latitude $3.50 longitude 104, just
q little north OF where the southern
extremity or the land reported dis
covered is said to be.
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