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FURTHER information has come to hand concerning Consul L. Christensen's discoveries in the Antarctic referred to in NATURE of March 17, p. 409. Princess Astrid Land, as it was named, is now reported in the Times to lie in about long. 86 ° 45′ E. and a little south of the Antarctic Circle. This is to the west of and adjoining Kaiser Wilhelm Land, discovered by Dr. E. von Drygalski in 1902, and east of Princess Elizabeth Land, discovered by Sir Douglas Mawson in 1931. The land was sighted from an aeroplane from a distance and reported to rise for a distance of about 150 miles. It is further reported that the Douglas Islands, off MacRobertson Land, do not exist. Consul Christensen then took the Thorshavn eastward and reports that in lat. 71 ° 44′ S., long. 134 ° 11′p E. (? W.) his seaplane could find no land to the south. Proceeding via Peter Island, the ship rounded Cape Horn, discovering a new bank to the south, and made for Montevideo. A number of soundings were taken in hitherto uncharted waters.
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The New Coast-line of Antarctica. Nature 133, 491 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133491a0
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