New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 30, 1925, Page 16

Rdegions that | THE VAST UNKNOWN™3, TE live In @ small woild, do we? / thing remaing of mysiery on our ere's wWhole surface, some say, s remain to be dincovered, F visited, The globe has been The explorer's day is over may at the s ers b iurope is the only con hnaw thorough And there are some siderable islands we about than w ot any of the continents. 1s 18 the } Geogr ociety's way of looking at What unexplored world area? i, it's an area krow practically nothing. Buch an area may have inhabit whout it, natdra the rest of tha world, But they're net in touch wit The National Geograph! ead of M atreets, Was formation relative to t the huge island ef New Guinea. Tou'll ha t era fsn't an The enasta &4 has been explored equare m erlor is virgin wilde '8 peopled by he a aborigines, b * ever has penctrated the That's just ons smail— world area, The ns hardly have heen t as we all know LAND OR WATER? soles have been reached, to be & Beaufort any rate, it's supp isn't there lar nt there without the casual vis VAST UNENOWN there are vast regio ta man square miles Most Vast Regions Unexplored a few of t people has been sc SOUTH AMERICA MRS. MARTIN JOHNSON, EXPLORE 1t, forgotten civllizations, Indeed, an Egyptian explorer, ear disco ces of a prehistoric itists previously had not dreamed ¥ Chapman Andrews en making re whle discoverics in the t few years in Mon- lia and the Gobi De Asia, but he mits tl 1y h scratched. ng explorat n China n: R, AND SOME MEN OF BORNEO. 4 vice, Inc.) No. § attempted several times, most of the IHimalayas never has been visited by an explorer. Except elong the lines of the rallroads, north and northwestern Australia s unmapped, or, it mapped, has been set down only tentatively. des New Guinea, the interfors of Borneo, Celebes, Java, Sumatra and much ot Formosa —some of them continents—are new flelds for the explorer. loring them, it's sald at the National Geographic Society, will be Intensely Interesting but probably almost equally dange Cleared, or frrigated, and developed, how much of this territory would be available for human tation? A great deal of it—hundreds of thousands, in- deed millions, of square miles, Not the extreme Arctic and Antarctic, of coursa, Nor the Sahara and Gobi Deserts. These reglons, while of Interest from the standpoint of scientific research, have no especial value otherwise—at any rate, no agricultural value; they may have mineral resources, or wealth which can be turned to ec count by the fisherman, the hunterand the trapper. A WHOLE CONTINENT e unexplored ¢ 1 Islands rich, once clez Jungle or watered. geographers say, the equivalent of at ir d contin f ueable land still re- mains to be v d for the first time by white mdn. It does not lie in one huge area, like the Americ when Columbus discovered them. 's unexplored areas are scattered bhut some like South America's vhst central pla'n, er of the United States . by the Canadian border Y lines drawn southward Trom the border and eastwardly from the Pacific so as to intersect at Denver, How the ceI“e’brat’g the § Full Moen in