Word: arctic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Kivalina of the Ice Lands was filmed by one Earl Rossman in a two-year expedition to the Arctic. Eskimos are the actors. Here are reindeer without the Santa Claus; an eskimaid eski-mobiling behind some dogs through a 50-below zero blizzard; a full color reproduction of the aurora borealis. It might have been written with an ice-pick on the bleak wall of an igloo, but its impression of tiny men spinning their confused webs against the icy gulfs of immeasurable space registers effectively...
...there was Roald Amundsen, intrepid wanderer in frozen places, who had planted the flag of Norway on the nether extremity of the globe. Then there was Riiser Larsen, his airplane pilot, and Lincoln Ellsworth, who piloted another airplane. Ellsworth, 45, son of an Ohio magnate, who first tasted the Arctic on an extensive survey for the Canadian Pacific R. R. in the Peace River area of Northwestern Canada, jumped to the tropics and reported on animal and vegetable life in Yucatan for the Smithsonian Institution, then north again to Baffin's Bay for the American Museum of Natural History...
...Arctic Circle kept its secret a fourth week. With Explorer Roald Amundsen of Norway, and his air pilot, Lincoln Ellsworth of Manhattan, still missing somewhere up towards the Pole (TIME, June 1 et seq.) the Norwegian steamer Ingcrtrc, sent to rescue them, dropped anchor in a Spitzbergen fjord. A party of aviators aboard her unlashed their two seaplanes and waited for Amundsen's base ship, the Fram, to come back from the icefloes with a weather report before taking off for a flight to inspect horizons further north...
...that had been hoisted in derision of his class. Adventurous, athletic, he loved the sea where his Scotch grandfathers had sailed, where his father was lost when Donald was 9. He would talk of going some day to the North Pole and made a collection of books on the Arctic during the years when he was successively principal of a Maine preparatory school, a classics instructor near Philadelphia and a physical director at Worcester (Mass.) Academy. In 1908, he had his chance and went with Peary on the first expedition ever to come to "the top of the world...
...ADVENTURE OF WRANGEL ISLAND - Vilhjalmur Stefansson - Macmillan ($6.00). Wrangel was an explorer; and an Arctic island off Siberia, according to Mr. Stefansson, was named after him by U. S. Whaling Captain Thomas Long.* This book, highly entertaining, contains accounts of several visits made to the Island and ends with uncertainty as to which country owns it -Russia, Britain or the U. S. Mr. Stefansson, who in 1914 took Wrangel Island for the British and later offered it to the U. S., seems, according to Russian advice, to have been beaten by the Bolsheviki. More certainly, nobody- except the aerophile scientists...