1929-30 the whaler Lars Christensen sent out an expedition under the command 
of Captain Riiser-Larsen accompanied by Captain Lutzow-Holm, who did ex- 
ploration work and took cartophotographs from the air along great areas of the 
country, including the region that was subsequently given the name of Kron- 
prinsesse Marthas Land. On a second expedition in 1930-31 fitted out by Lars 
Christensen a further large area was discovered and explored by airplane; that 
land was named Prinsesse Ragnhild Land. It was to this land that Captain 
Riiser-Larsen and others came on an expedition they made with the support of 
the Norwegian Government in 1932-33, and there, as well as at other points 
within the sector here in question, Norwegian whalers were close to the coast on 
many occasions during those years. Finally, in the summer of 1936-37 Lars Chris- 
tensen despatched still another expedition to the Antarctic, and on that occasion 
Lieutenant Wideroe piloted a plane over extensive areas, so that a great deal of 
new land was discovered and mapped both without and within the territory 
which the former expeditions had visited, and a territory then explored between 
Dronning Maud Land and Prinsesse Ragnhild Land was named Prins Harald 
Land. On all these expeditions practically the whole of the mainland within the 
Atlantic Sector bordering the sea was explored and mapped so well that we may 
say that not many parts of the Antarctic continent are better known. 
It should be mentioned that Norwegian explorers, Roald Amundsen and 
others, have explored also other parts of the Antarctic, and in particular they 
have in recent years explored and mapped much of the land which was brought 
under Australia in 1933. There should, however, not be any question of Norway 
laying claim to any land that has previously been taken possession of by another 
state. This accords with the promise given by the Norwegian Government to 
Great Britain in 1929 to the effect that it would not raise any claim in respect of 
land within the region which had then been brought under the dominion of the 
British Empire. 
But Norway considers that it may with full right claim dominion over that 
land which until now has lain unclaimed and, which none but Norwegians have 
explored and mapped. 
It is this very area which in recent years has been of capital importance to 
Norwegian whaling. This fishery is now prosecuted on the high seas, but as the 
summer advances the catches are made closer and closer to land. The mainland 
coast in these parts runs approximately along the 70th degree of latitude and in 
the beginning of the summer —in December — the edge of ice is usually along 
the 60th degree. It is not until February that the factory boats draw near to 
shore. 
A question that may have an important bearing on the freedom to be ex- 
tended to whaling expeditions is the determination of the limit of territorial 
waters. But on this question there still exists a good deal of uncertainty. It has 
been maintained that the ice-limit in the Antarctic must be regarded as the limit 
of the continent, and Great Britain and the two British dominions that have 
taken land here have in the main drawn the limit along the 60th degree of lati- 
tude. What this implies in respect of the right to sovereignty does not appear 
to be quite clear; one thing is, however, certain, namely that Norwegian whalers 
operating within this limit were for a number of years required to pay a licence. 
For the very reason that such questions of territorial limits remain undecided, 
it is most desirable for the Norwegian whaling industry in those seas that Nor- 
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