[Right Wing Professor]

For a third, "Wrangel" is only a guano island, protected by the Guano Treaty only as long as bat guano is being actively mined there by U.S. citizens.

You think there are bats living on permanently frozen islands in the Arctic Sea?

[Southack]

"You think there are bats living on permanently frozen islands in the Arctic Sea?"

Do you mean Arctic *Ocean*? Do you think that bat guano is the *only* type of mining covered by the Guano Treaty?

[Southack]

See Post #27.

"Stefansson had sent the party to Wrangel Island with the hope that Canada or the United States would be able to claim control of the island, which had always been a part of Russia. The island encompasses an area of about 2,000 square miles. It’s 80 miles long and 18 to 30 miles wide, which makes it about half the size of Puerto Rico.

Now a Russian wildlife refuge, in the early part of the century the island was mysterious because it is surrounded almost constantly by ice fields and often blanketed in dense fog."