Word: arctic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Demonstration of the feasibility and advisability of taking radio equipment into the North, and of the efficiency of short-wave sets in overcoming the belt of static that affects long-wave communication from within the Arctic Circle...
...Further demonstration of the possibilities of traversing the arctic by air, covering in a few hours distances it formerly took weeks for men and dogs to go, yet increasing the data of difficulties in the way of a short America-to-Europe airplane route via the Pole...
...Norwegian capital, Premier Johan Ludwig Mowinckel declared, during a day of national rejoicing, that "the incorporation of Svalbard makes Aug. 14 a red-letter day in our history. What happens today is an extension of Norwegian territory, and all Norwegians must rejoice that such an important territory in the Arctic Ocean becomes a part of Norway...
...Spitsbergen, usually and incorrectly written Spitzbergen, is the main island of an Arctic archipelago off the coast of Greenland. The principal islands of this archipelago are: Spitsbergen, Prince Charles Foreland, Edge Island, Barents Island, King Karl's Island, Hope Island, Bear Island...
...With Arctic winter and its impossible flying weather only a fortnight off, Explorer Donald B. MacMillan and his fellow Arctic-argonauts (TIME, June 22 et seq.) at Etah, Greenland, last week fumed and fretted at fogs and gales which delayed their work of finding west of them, on Ellesmere Island, a suitable spot for a food and fuel way-station between Etah and Cape Thomas Hubbard (Axel Heiberg Land), from which advance base they were to make search flights still farther west where fabulous "Crocker Land" may or may not await discovery...