Word: angmagsalik
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adventurous young British scientist named Harold George Watkins who previously had headed the British Arctic Air Route Expedition in Greenland for a purpose similar to Pan American's. Explorer Watkins took charge of a Pan American East Greenland Expedition with a base camp about 80 mi. north of Angmagsalik. Meanwhile the University of Michigan Pan American Airways West Greenland Expedition, commanded by Dr. Ralph Belknap, worked out of three bases. Last August Watkins was drowned when his kayak capsized but his party carried on under his aide, John R. Rymill. Using no aircraft except sounding balloons (Lindbergh will...
Shortly after turning northward, a bird struck a wing of the big amphibian. Airmen always think this is a bad augury. Halfway to Angmagsalik the party ran into a blinding blizzard that whipped up a nasty sea, blotted out the visibility. Snow so loaded the plane that the speed was cut to 60 m.p.h. Unable to climb above the storm, Pilot Hutchinson dropped to 50 ft. With windshields caked with snow, he dodged icebergs and cliffs until forced to make a practically blind landing. Drift ice punctured a pontoon. Radioman Gerald Altfilisch sent out SOS calls and their position, soon...
Died, Harold George ("Gino") Watkins, 25, British explorer; by drowning; near Angmagsalik, Greenland. In 1927, aged 20, Explorer Watkins accompanied an expedition into Labrador's interior, later commanded a Cambridge University Arctic expedition. In 1930 he headed a Greenland expedition, this year was surveying a possible route for Pan American Airways...
...July 14). One of the party was Augustine Courtauld, 27, son of rich Tycoon Samuel Augustine Courtauld (artificial silk). He volunteered to remain alone through the winter on the Greenland ice cap to make meteorological observations. According to their agreement, Watkins led a party from the base camp near Angmagsalik in March to relieve Courtauld. They searched in vain for his hut in the snow, finally had to return for more supplies. Once again Watkins went to get his friend (who had provisions to last only until May 1) and failed again. (The expedition's two little Moth planes...