Word: aklavik
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sounded her way through Bellot Strait. Snow shrouded the Arctic dusk as head on through the haze came the bow of another ship. Nascopie's Captain Thomas Smellie's incredulous hail got a booming reply from veteran Arctic Trader Patsy Klingenberg, from the deck of the Schooner Aklavik, eastbound to Baffin Island, and astonished Eskimo cheers from both crews echoed through the rock-bound channel. That night captains of both vessels described from their anchorages to Canadian Broadcasting Co. and NBC audiences their historic meeting. Hopeful for the growing trade of the North were residents and sponsors...
Fortnight ago Post and Rogers reached Juneau in their synthetic Lockheed, flew on to Dawson, Aklavik, Fairbanks, Anchorage. They visited the Government's Matanuska Valley farm colony, were on their way to Point Barrow when they came down one evening in a river near an Eskimo camp to inquire their way. Post tinkered the motor and after dining ashore with the natives, they took off for the ten-minute flight to Point Barrow. The plane had soared about 50 ft. when the motor sputtered. Post banked steeply to the right in a desperate effort to get back...
...summer of 1931, Charles Lindbergh and his wife flew from College Point, Long Island-by way of Maine, Ottawa, Aklavik, Nome, Karaginski, and Tokyo-to Nanking and the flooded valley of the Yangtze River. They were driven down by darkness in Alaska, by fog in Japan; they were lost, went hungry, almost wrecked, were caught in a burning building, discovered a stowaway in their plane, were nearly mobbed by famished Chinese, had to swim for their lives in the dangerous Yangtze when their plane went over. Last week Anne Morrow Lindbergh, in a disarmingly modest record of the flight, apologized...
Into Churchill, Man., at sunset one evening, strode a young (24) adventurer named Dave Irwin. Blond, husky Adventurer Irwin was finishing a 2,600-mi. dog-team trip from Aklavik, on the shore of the Arctic Ocean. In 1931 he set out from Alaska to help Herdsman Andy Bahr drive 3.000 reindeer across Northern Alaska and the Mackenzie River Delta to Canada (TIME, Jan. 7).* Quarreling with other drivers two years ago, he packed up a sledge, mushed off eastward alone. By dint of catching fish bare-handed to feed himself and his dogs, he reached the North Magnetic Pole...
...third time a police patrol set out from Aklavik, but this time Albert Johnson had fled from Rat River, was trying to beat his way through the arctic winter to Alaska and safety. Followed the north country's greatest man hunt. Trappers rushed their wives to trading posts for safety, then joined the posse...