The Chilean Government issued" decree yesterday claiming a large tarea in ihe adjacent Antarctica and noted the availability of mineral Fesources in the territory.
'The. Government claimed the area' between meridians $3 and 90 west longitude, which includes Little America. Bellinghausen Sea, Charcot and Alexander Lands, Adciaine and Biscoe Islands, Graham Land, Pla-mer Archipelago. South "Shetlands and Ross Islands, Erebus and Terror Gute, Elephant islands and. part. of the Wedd Sea.
"After summarizing foreign claims on several Antarctic zones, the decree Feealled that the United States had made no claims of sovereignty the area, The decree said that the US. twice had informed Chile that its activities in the Antareltea were only solentine.
The decree pointed out that there were large coal reserves In the Antarctica. ud also possibly some ai and pold—United Press,
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