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theory accrued during past years is the step immediately before us and 

 cannot fail to be of great value to science. 



Of unexplored regions in the North, there are remaining but two of first 

 importance: the inland ice cap of Greenland and the area represented by the 

 large blank space on the map bounded by Bering Strait and the Pole, the 

 western border of the Arctic Archipelago and the known open sea north of 

 Siberia. The theories of cotidal experts have it that within this region lies 

 an undiscovered Arctic continent, or a series of large islands separated by 

 narrow channels, the whole not greatly distant from Banks Island, Prince 

 Patrick Island and Grant Land (the western limit of the Arctic Archipelago), 

 while tradition among the Eskimo and indefinite reports of whalers 



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 The north polar regions have sternly guarded their unknown areas with shifting ice 

 over deep sea. Cotidal experts now maintain the existence of a land mass, possibly of 500,000 

 square miles, in what is represented as open polar basin immediately north of British America 

 and west of the Arctic Archipelago 



strengthen the theories in fixing the southern edge of the unknown land not 

 far north of Point Barrow and the northern shores of America. I must 

 believe in the existence of such land, one corner of which I saw from Cape 

 Thomas Hubbard in July, 1906, in the mountain peaks of Crocker' Land. 



If land of large extent be located west of Banks Island and Grant Land, 

 the discovery from the standpoint of future exploration will be of unusual 

 importance, since the new land will be a base for penetration of the remainder 

 of the unknown area to the west. In fact, since the theory of the existence 

 of extensive land, one corner of which is Crocker Land and another not far 



