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Show Ownership of Arctic ,.' 1 Island Awarded Norway The Island ot Jan Mayen In Arctic' waters, between Iceland nud Kplts bergen, was recently t rniully annexed; to Norway, says a dispatch from Osloj At the same time the, director ot the Norwegian meteorological station on the Island was given magisterial au, thority on the Island. The claim of i Norway to Jan Mayen. an Island ) : miles north of Scotland and H miles' northeast of Icelnnd, has sometime been contested by other countries. It wns probahly discovered by the Eng llsh explorer. Henry Hudson, in 1007 a It has been Identified as the island lie visited thai yenr. in latitude 71 degrees north, and named "Hudson's 'Hitches." But It is certain thai the Dutch navigator, Jan Jacobsz May (whose name It now -ear), landed there In 1614. But It, was then considered con-sidered an ICtiglisb possession, and was granted to tbe corporation ot Hull by James I In 1014. During tbe World war tt was occupied and claimed oy a Norwegian, but lie fur ther complicated the question of own- ershlp by selling bis rights to au American cltlxen. |