Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Monday 3 September 1923, page 8


THAWING IN ARCTIC.

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DISCOVERY OF ISLAND.

j PREVIOUSLY ICE BURIED.

j CHRISTIANIA, ^September, I

The Norwegian^ Captain "Wiktor Arnesen, «rho has just returned fron, the Arctic, elaine to have discovered an island 12 milfs in circumference near the Franz Joseph Island, in lati-tude 80.40. Ho says that tbo island previously «vas hidden by an iceberg be-tween 70 and 80 feet high, which has melted, showing the exceptional nature of the recent thawing in the Arctic.