Word: arctic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...several weeks no receiving station in North America was able to pick up messages from Donald Mix, radio operator of the Bowdoin, Dr. Donald B. MacMillan's boat now in the Arctic (TIME, Sept. 10). Fin- ally an amateur operator at Prince Rupert, B. C., 2,200 miles from Greenland, and later the station of the Calgary (Alberta) Herald, caught faint and fragmentary messages in Morse, reporting the Bowdoin frozen solid in the ice floes of Smith Sound, at about 79° latitude, some 706 miles from the Pole. This is the strait separating northwest Greenland from the large group...
Radio experts are of the opinion that the cause of the prolonged difficulty in communicating with the MacMillan party was the long Arctic Summer. Not all amateurs realize that the sun's rays affect detrimentally radio transmission in daylight by expanding the atmosphere and partly disintegrating it (a process called ionization...
...dispell that. Recently, however, with the discovery of some bottle-nosed whales, which lay derelict on the shore (incapacitated. no doubt, by auto-intoxication) even the sea promises to become an open book. Only yesterday there was a report that a 4000 pound walrus was shot in the Arctic Circle, and is to be presented to the B. A. A. That may be the well-known B. A. A. or it may be a Barbers Arctic Association, in which case the wairus is of course to be used as a subject for sartorial practice...
...bottle-nosed whale is a very rare specie found in Arctic waters. It derives its name from its very large beaked head resembling the nose of a bottle...
Explorer MacMillan, penetrating the Arctic to foretell the next...