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tinents as we now know them and began to shift apart 
gradually. A rather convincing part of this argument is the 
way that the coasts of the Americas and Europe and Africa 
fit together. Especially convincing is the fit of South America 
with Africa. 
UNKNOWN ISLANDS 
One hears it said so often these days that “the days of ex- 
ploration of new territory are over,’ that he is likely to get 
a wrong impression concerning the completeness of our geo- 
graphical knowledge. Let it be known, then, that there are 
probably entire islands as yet undiscovered, and others whose 
positions are marked on navigation charts with an “existence 
doubtful.” As late as 1915 a group of islands was rediscovered 
in Hudson Bay, the Belcher Islands. For three centuries pre- 
vious the Bay had been traversed by trading vessels and the 
islands remained uncharted. Nor is the size, three million 
acres, insignificant. . . 
A little more understandable, but still surprising is the late 
rediscovery of Bouvet Island, a thousand miles southwest of 
the Cape of Good Hope. The island was discovered by the 
Frenchman Bouvet on January 1, 1739. Years later attempts 
were made to rediscover the island by Furneaux (1774), 
and by Captain Cook (1775). An American whaler, Lindsay, 
(1808) reported having seen the island, but no one accepted 
his evidence against that of the famous Captain Cook. Cap- 
tain George Norris took possession of the island in the name 
of the English king in 1825. Then came further blows to the 
credibility of the island’s existence. The famous antarctic ex-_ 
plorer, James Ross, searched for, but could not find, Bouvet 
Island (1843). It was similarly invisible to Lieut. T. Moore 
