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BLO 284 PS 16/2(1) 1 folder, 631 pages. Manuscript notes and documents. Contains duplicates. Pages are out of order. Some documents are hard to read.
Letters exchanged between Mrs. Mary Bailey and Mr. te Water regarding a prospectus by Mr. Jones on the subject of raising funds for a prospective South African Antarctic Expedition and taking possession of a sector in Antarctic territory, June 1930.
Copy of abovementioned Prospectus.
Telegram addressed to Union Government on the subject of Norwegian Antarctic Mawson Expedition, 30.11.29.
Letters from Cpt. E.E. Mills Joyce to the S.A. High Commissioner concerning the need for a South African Antarctic Expedition and an invitation to his lecture, 6.6.30 and 23.6.30.
Memorandum on the Policy in the Antarctic from the Committee on Polar Questions.
Draft report from the Committee on Polar questions, including: I. Situation in the Arctic; II. Situation in the Antarctic; III. Whaling; Appendix A. Argentine claims to the South Orkney Islands. Appendix B. Memoranda prepared by the ‘Discovery’ Committee, 19.10.30.
Imperial Conference, 1930: Policy in the Antarctic, 31.6.30.
Letter from Dominions Office, expressing their views of Capt. Joyce’s proposals, November ’30.
Letter from High Commissioner to Secretary for External Affairs, entitled Antarctic Policy: proposed Expedition to Antarctic 1930-32, 20.11.30.
Letter from Political Secretary to Under-Secretary of State, Dominions Office, informing the latter that it would be inadvisable to give any governmental support to Cpt. Joyce’s scheme, 26.2.31.
Various correspondence on the subject of Cpt. Mills Joyce’s proposed air expedition to the Antarctic, thanks to the financial support of Lord Wakerfield, January ’34.
Memorandum from Norwegian Minister, entitled Polar Territorial Claims, 27.1.34.
Various correspondence on the subject of British and Norwegian claims in the Antarctic.
French translations of proposals of the Norwegian Ministry for Foreign Affiars, approved by Royal Decree, 14.1.39.
Statement by Foreign Office Legal Adviser on the necessity of physical occupation as a means of securing sovereignty in the Polar Regions, Annex to 2nd Meeting of Polar Committee.
Telegrams from Dominion Office regarding British Commonwealth territorial claims in Antarctica; a summary of Admiral Byrd in the New York Times; latest developments; United States considering a more forward policy in Antarctica; the question of Antarctic claims on the basis of a distinction between the continent proper and the Falkland Island Dependencies; the settling of sovereignty claims; Nov-Dec ’46, Feb-Mar ’48.
Telegram from State Department to U.K. government asking their views of S.A staking a claim on the Antarctic region lying immediately south of the Cape of Good Hope, 27.12.46.
Letter from D.B. Sole to G.P. Joosts, entitled South African claims in the Antarctic, 27.1.47.
Note on United States Antarctic views, from U.S. Embassy, December ’47.
Various correspondence relating to S.A’s views in regard to the territorial problem of Antarctica.
Letter from E.A. Colban to Oslo, re. the proposition for a law regarding Queen Maud Land, 10.6.48.
Letter from Political Secretary to Secretary for External Affairs, entitled Plans for Antarctic Regime, 18.8.48 and other correspondence regarding.
Chilean counter proposal to U.S. suggestion for a special Antarctic regime, 19.7.48.
Letter from Secretary for External Affairs to S.A. Chargé d’Affaires, Washington, entitled United States Proposals for an International Antarctic Commission or Condominium, 20.9.48.
Text of Draft Agreement on Antarctica, with Aide Memoire, from United States State Department, 9.8.48.
Text of United States proposals for a special regime in the Antarctic, 19.10.48.
Text of reply from Foreign Secretary in the House of Commons to a question about
the U.S. proposals for an international solution to the Antarctic problem, 3.11.48
Answer by the Norwegian Government to the American suggestions for the administration of the Antarctic area, 7.12.48.
Statement issued by Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs concerning Chilean claims in the Antarctic, 29.10.48.
Telegram from the Commonwealth Relations Office re. the French government’s opposition to the abandonment of national sovereignty, 18.12.48.
Note Verbale from Chilean Minister of Foreign Affairs, rejecting U.S. proposals for a special regime in the Antarctic, 24.1.49.
Minutes of general meeting of All-Union Geographical Society, 11.2.49.
Memorandum from Belgian Embassy, stating that the discovery and investigation of certain Antarctic areas entitle Belgium to make its voice heard at any international conference. With State Department’s reply, 31.12.48.
Article form Pravda, reporting on the All-Union Geographical Society’s meeting, 11.2.49.
Copy of B.V. Kostritsyn’s The question of the regime of the Antarctic, in Soviet State Law, No.3, March ’51.
Booklet entitled Territorial Claims in the Antarctic, from U.K. Foreign Office, 1.5.45.
Note from E.N. Larmour (Secretary, Polar Committee) entitled Soviet Interest in the Antarctic, 31.1.50.
Newspaper clippings:
Flags in the Antarctic, Cape Times, 11.6.30.
Polar Air Bid by British Explore, Evening Standard, 6.1.34.
Operation Antarctica is on, Telegraph.
U.S. Antarctic Proposal: Administration by Eight Powers, The Times, 28.8.48.
Future of Antarctica: Two Views in Australia, The Times, 31.8.48.