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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo13amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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52 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL theory accrued during past years is the step immediately before us and cannot fail to be of great value to science. Of unexplored regions in the North, there are remaining but two of first importance: the inland ice cap of Greenland and the area represented by the large blank space on the map bounded by Bering Strait and the Pole, the western border of the Arctic Archipelago and the known open sea north of Siberia. The theories of cotidal experts have it that within this region lies an undiscovered Arctic continent, or a series of large islands separated by narrow channels, the whole not greatly distant from Banks Island, Prince Patrick Island and Grant Land (the western limit of the Arctic Archipelago), while tradition among the Eskimo and indefinite reports of whalers
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Sm ^'^yo ^ HUDSON BAY HBHh Reprinted from May Journal, 1912 The north polar regions have sternly guarded their unknown areas with shifting ice over deep sea. Cotidal experts now maintain the existence of a land mass, possibly of 500,000 square miles, in what is represented as open polar basin immediately north of British America and west of the Arctic Archipelago strengthen the theories in fixing the southern edge of the unknown land not far north of Point Barrow and the northern shores of America. I must believe in the existence of such land, one corner of which I saw from Cape Thomas Hubbard in July, 1906, in the mountain peaks of Crocker'Land. If land of large extent be located west of Banks Island and Grant Land, the discovery from the standpoint of future exploration will be of unusual importance, since the new land will be a base for penetration of the remainder of the unknown area to the west. In fact, since the theory of the existence of extensive land, one corner of which is Crocker Land and another not far

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