  We have carried out a new photometric study of the remote Galactic globular
cluster NGC 2419, using proprietary and archive B,V,I time-series CCD
photometry of the cluster, that allowed us to discover a large number of new
variable stars and to obtain a new colour magnitude diagram that reaches V ~26
mag over a field of 50X43 square arcmin centered on NGC 2419. The new variables
include 39 RR Lyrae and 11 SX Phoenicis stars. The pulsation properties of the
new RR Lyrae stars confirm and strengthen the classification of NGC 2419 as an
Oosterhoff type II cluster.
