Copenhagen, May 11.
Dr. Lange Kock, the well-known explorer, started today from King's Bay, Spitzbergen, in search of an unknown island believed to exist in the Arctic Ocean and also to visit Peary Land.
Dr. Kock, who arrived at King's Bay last month by air, believes he sighted a phantom island between north-east Greenland and the North Pole {wo years ayo when carrying out ay series of exploratory flights in North Greenland.
This unknown island was first heard pf during the 1000-08 exper'ition to north-east Greenland headed by the Danish explorer, Dr. Erichsen, who, with two other members of his party made a long sledge trip to Peary Land, All three died of hunger, but their papers showed that they' believed they had seen a new Jand in. the Arctic Ocean.
Soviet airmen who flew over the North Pole to America last summer iso reported sighting land between the North Pole and Greentand.—
Reuter.
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