Word: angmagsalik
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...statue there, go across Canada to Cape Chidley at the northernmost tip of Labrador, skip over water but in sight of land to Cape Walsingham on Baffin Island, jump across Davis Strait to Mt. Evans, Greenland. From Mt. Evans they would cross the Greenland ice cap to Angmagsalik and then over water to Reykjavik, Iceland. From Iceland they would try for Bergen, Norway, stopping at the Faroe or Shetland islands if necessary, and from Bergen to Copenhagen to Berlin. Then they would fly back over the same route to Chicago...
...large mail from admirers in the U. S., and not at all worried. They feel sure they will get through and time is no object. In the meantime, the Navy has been coöperating in wonderful fashion. The supply ship Gertrude Rask finally broke through the ice to Angmagsalik, on the south coast of Greenland, but found the clear space in the harbor too small and ice-infested for the fliers to land there. A new base has been found in a bay some fifteen miles from Angmagsalik and the "gobs" are painfully transporting supplies through...
Admiral Thomas P. Magruder is on board the flagship Richmond off Reykjavik in constant touch with the fliers; the torpedo boat destroyers Billingsley and Reid are stationed along the southern waters of Greenland; the cruiser Richmond completes the chain, being stationed as near to Angmagsalik as the ice permits. Planes from the Richmond flew to the new base and created a great sensation with the Eskimos, who had never seen such giant birds before. An Iceland historian has unearthed an old prophecy which states that giant birds will cross to Greenland before the month of August is out. This favorable...
...fliers were in a painful position. From Reykjavik in Iceland they were to fly to the Eastern shore of Greenland at Angmagsalik. Even this point was 750 miles from the Icelandic harbor. From here they were to fly to Ivigtut on the western shore of the huge continent of Greenland, sheltered from easterly currents and therefore open later in the season. But with Angmagsalik closed, it was possible that they would be forced to the truly terrible non-stop flight of 1,000 miles from Reykjavik direct to Ivigtut right across Greenland's icy mountains. In the cruiser Raleigh...