Word: arctic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cross the Arctic Ocean by submarine, scooting under ice floes, surging up at ice lakes, was the plan voiced in Manhattan last week by Sir George Hubert Wilkins, Arctic-Antarctic explorer. For ten years he has nursed the project...
...July the Arctic is clotted with ice, not frozen over. Every 25 miles or so are lakes amidst the ice cakes. With a crew of twelve men and oxygen to supply them under water for 48 to 60 hours if necessary, Explorer Wilkins believes he can cross between Spitsbergen, Norway, and Point Barrow, Alaska, within three weeks...
Such journey, no tour de force, would serve to study the Arctic's floor. Some geologists believe that the waters rest in a huge basin, others that they hug the outside of a basin upside down. No one knows. Explorer Wilkins found a depth of 17,000 feet (3½ miles) off Point Barrow. Amundsen found 15,000 feet off Spitsbergen. Peary dropped a 3,000-ft. rope at the Pole and could not touch bottom...
...rightly judge of the events that followed or can say whether or not Nobile is to be blamed for being the first to leave the ice floe," declared Captain. E. P. Lundborg, who last summer flew to the rescue of Umberto Nobile of the dirigible, Italia, wrecked in the Arctic...
...White House hurried Captain Einar Paul Lundborg, of the Swedish Royal Flying Corps, rescuer of General Umberto Nobile in the Arctic, to pay his respects to President Hoover. He wore a brand new uniform. Three Washington tailors had made it for him in three hours when his trunk failed to follow him promptly from Manhattan...