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Show BRITISH CLAIM ARCTIC ISLAND Announcement Is Made by Explorer Stefansson in Brooklyn NEW YORK. March 10. Wrnnffel Island, one of the most important ljnds In the Arctic region, has been claimed for Great Britain by a party of three Americans, a Canadian and fOUr Eskimos In Brooklyn Sumlay through llh tjaltnar Steffans-on. Arc-ftc Arc-ftc explorei', organizer of the expedl-iion expedl-iion Mr Stefansson said the Hritlnh flag hud been planted on the island Sept. 21. last MISSION KEPT sK HIT Steffansson, a British subject, said hN fifth and latest Arctic expedition. I made up of Allen Crawford, a son of a Toronto university professor. K. L. Knight. McMlnnville. Oregon; Predt-rick Predt-rick Mauer, New Philadelphia, ihio. and .Llt..n Galls of New Braunfels. Texas, with four Eskimos, was sent by him Into the northern wastes for the J express purpose of claiming Wrangel ale nd tor the British Wrangel island is about the siz.- of Jamaica, lying 100 miles of f t he not th-I th-I eastern roasi of Siberia and 400 miles 1 west of Bchnng strait. Strategically, I th ((land dominates northeastern Siberia. Si-beria. Mr Btefenaaon said onb the leiuler of the parl, Crawford. lint-M I of the mission of the expedition. The I Amerlcans; he said, became connected wfth the expedition purely through loc of adventure. BAILORS LANDED Although Stefansson s.t!d he knew of the expedltlop'e success ihe day following the Wrangel Island landing, he has Just made the fact public. He .-.iid he Intended sailing this spring j for England, to present Britain s new I possession to the British prime minister. min-ister. Wrangel island was first discovered in l(v4'' b a l-.rllish naval expedition under Captain Kellett. who sailed close to the land, but did not g ashore, the explorer said In 1S69. DeLong. an American whaling captain, discovered dis-covered the Island which It was assumed as-sumed was the same sought by Baron Wrahgel, a Ruuaian. In 1S25 In 1 s ft 1 'several American naval ships landod I men on the island. But all these , landing parses, American and Brllliih i alike, lost claim to the. land after tho , lapse of five years, according tc the 1 explorer |