Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Describing the recent flight of G. H. Wilkins over the North Pole from Alaska to Spitzbergen as "the Elizabethan dream of a Northwest passage come true," Vilhjalmur Stefansson Arctic explorer and member of the University faculty from 1904 to 1906 explained to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday several reasons for the importance of Wilkins' achievement...
Vilhjalmur Stefansson, noted Arctic explorer, will speak today at 11 o'clock in Harvard 5 to the students of Anthropology 2 in a lecture open to all students in biological sciences...
Stefansson was a member of the University faculty from 1904-06, and has spent 11 1-2 years in the Arctic...
...more hazardous. Because of the constant variation of the compass in such close proximity to the magnetic pole, navigation is a matter of genius. Because the vast area is unexplored, landing in case of emergency becomes a matter of prayer. No ship patrols the frozen reaches of the Arctic; no lighthouse points the way. Said Commander Byrd: "I congratulate him most heartily." Added Lincoln Ellsworth: "My hat comes off to the pluck of a brave gentleman...
Wilkins started for Alaska in the winter of 1926, heading what was then called "the most scientifically planned and thoroughly equipped Arctic expedition ever assembled." His twin objects were "new lands for the United States and an airway across the top of the world." Furthermore, he wanted to prove that an airplane costing about $25,000 had a special utility of its own as against an airship costing about...