Word: antarctica
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After twelve days in the vast loneliness of the world's last no man's land, six survivors of a crashed Navy flying boat, all members of the Byrd Expedition, were rescued on the edge of ice-clad Antarctica. Three of the crew had died...
...greatest stories of geographic discovery were never written. . . . The great tales which we are able to present are those of re-discovery." The Greeks who "discovered" Britain (about the 4th Century B.C.) found it already inhabited, and there were Indians to receive the first explorers on the American continent. Antarctica alone, says Stefansson, is "the one continent whose true human discoverers are known"-and at a period of civilization when such men as Scott, Shackleton, Amundsen could be aware of, and set down, the most vital details of their discoveries...
There are three such "source regions" of cold air: Siberia, northern Canada and Antarctica. The first two are fairly well known to meteorologists; but the interior of Antarctica is still something to guess about...
Weather & Magnetism. The icy winds which howl off the icecap affect the whole world's weather. Little is known about these winds. The Navy's meteorologists will study Antarctica's storms, using everything from sounding balloons to radar. They will take the temperature at all depths of the cold Antarctic seas, clock the powerful currents that surge northward to affect the climate of South America, Australia and Africa. The data they collect should help stay-at-home weathermen...
...Chile, which (like half a dozen other countries) claims a part of Antarctica and is its nearest neighbor, planned an expedition to "establish contact with that most remote corner of the national territory...