Word: antarctica
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the world was full of unexplored land, storytellers had it easy. Who could be certain that there were no such things as unicorns, rocs, two-headed men, hippogriffs, basilisks, amazons? The only sizeable blank spot left on the globe-the interior of Antarctica-has been written off by most romancers as hopelessly, unromantically cold...
...geologists with Rear Admiral Richard Byrd, who feels responsible for Antarctica, are more imaginative. Somewhere in Antarctica's forbidding interior, they speculated, there may be a hidden valley heated to tropical balminess by volcanic energy. There-just possibly-unknown fauna may be nibbling at unknown flora...
Before the Navy gives way to the Antarctic winter, mapping planes may try to find out if Antarctica is really a single continent. Two deep indentations, the Weddell Sea and the Ross Sea, poke toward one another through its frozen heart. Are the seas connected by a strait choked with eternal ice? This, says Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, is "the world's greatest unsolved geographical puzzle...
...frosty visions of Alexander H. Rice '98, professor of Geographical Exploration, are ever effected, southbound vacationists may pass by Florida's crowded and expensive resorts and recline in peace and quiet in the "wide open spaces" of Antarctica...
...undergraduates, William Latady '47 and Robert H. T. Dedson '47, sailed Saturday with the Ronne expedition from Beaumont, Texas, to Antarctica. Both members of the Mountaineering Club, they joined the expedition two weeks ago and made preparations for a 15-month siege in the snow...