Evening star., 1950-01-09
Prince Charles Island
Newest Discovered Land
Name of Infant Heir to Throne
Given Canadian Isle
BY Thomas r. Henry

Op HOmdS N. Henfp
The name of the Prince of Edinburgh, in
FAINT heir to the British throne has beens
given to the empires latest, territorial ac-
QUESTION and the newest discovered land
This is Prince Charles Island, an area
OF about 1000 square miles in Foxe Basin
between Bafhn Island and the Melville
peninsula in the Canadian Arctic. 1t is one
of two large islands discovered during the
summer of 1948 by a Royal Canadian Air
Force pilot on regular flight. The region
always had been vaguely mapped. Pre-
sumably the islands had escaped notice
before because snow and ice hid them from
the few ships which entered the Foxe Basin.
The other island has not yet been named.
The first expedition to explore the islands,
which lie in the northwest corner of the
Foxe Basin, was sent out this summer by
the Dominion's Department of Mines and
Resources under the leadership of T. H.
Manning. In the party were three geog-
raphers. botanist and a geologist. 1t was
provided with specially built boat which
was shipped by rail from Nova Scotia to
James Bay for launching.
Thus far there have been no official reports
from this expedition. Prince Charles Island
is described as a low fiat land about IS
miles from north to south and IS miles from
east to west. The position in which it has
tentatively been mapped. according to a
report Of the Arctic Institute of North
America, is 6710 to 68.27 north latitude and
74.50 to 77.30 west longitude.
The infant prince has thus been accorded
an honor not granted to either his grand
father, the present king. or his great grand
father in these days when most of the
earth's surface has been discovered. The
two islands promise to be the most important
additions to the land surface of the world
outside the still sparsely explored Antarctic
to be found in this generation.
The prince also can be expected to have
some mountains and glaciers named after
him by the present British-Norwegian ex-
pedition. which is on its way to establish a
base on the Weddell Sea coast of the Ant
arctic continent. The other side of the con-
tinent is covered with names Of the British
royal family of the generation of Victoria
and Edward the Seventh. =,
Meanwhile Canada has given the name Of
retired Prime Minister Mackenzie King to
another large territory just demonstrated to
be a seperate island. In 1915, the veteran
Arctic explorer Vihjalmur Stefansson dis
covered at the northeast corner of the Beau.
fort Sea- the extreme northwest of the Cana
dian Arctic archipelago, large island He
named it after Sir Robert Borden, at that
time Canada's prime minister.
Stefansson returned to the island the two
succeeding summers. He worked, however,
in constant heavy fog and missed some inn
portant features. A Canadian Royal Air
Force plane last summer demonstrated con-
clusively that there are really two islands
separated by a narrow channel. This Is
usually filled with ice. Henceforth the south
ern island will be known as Mackenzie King
Island
Tiredness comes in jumps. .
This conclusion is reported to the National
Academy of Sciences here by DR.. Leonard
Carmichael, president of Tufts College.
After long experimental studies of fatigue
as 1t actually affects mind and body, he and
his associates, Drs. John L. Kennedy and
Leonard c. Mead, have been unable tc find
any steady progress of getting tired the long
er one works, as would seem the case to the
individual. Measurements were made of the
specific muscles engaged in the work and
changes in brain waves were observed 70 de-
tect changes in alertness. The apparatus has
been tested In submarines, airplanes and
trucks.
When the task required is not above a
persons normal ability DR.. Carmichael con.
cludes, "the change first noted is in aprareut-
ly involuntary lapses in an otherwise cen
tinuous and effective performance AS mo-
notonous tasks 60 on there seems to be con-
fict between desire to continue and level OF
performance.
The pattern of human fatigue is seen to
be one of periodic blocks, or Interruptions.
In general as time without rest continues the
number and duration of these lapses increase
until in the typical case sleep ensues."