Sydney Men Discover New
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Island
ANEW island has been discovered in the south-west Pacific by four Sydney men, Messrs. Norman K. Wallis, Henry Newton-Scott, John W. Forsyth, and Gil - Whitley (ichthyologist to the Aus tralian Museum).
Cruising in the schooner Wanderer, the party came upon the island lying in the four-mile-wide Elizabeth Reef, north of Lord Howe Island. It was taken posses sion of in the name of King Edward VIII, and called Forsyth Land, after Forsyth who forecast its use as a seaplane base on the Sydney-Fiji-America route.
In the opinion of Mr. Whitley, the new island is in the centre of the best big game fishing ground in the Pacific. He said that Elizabeth Reef had not been visited since a ship was wrecked there in 1909. The island had formed since, and is growing rapidly.