Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Majesty is first a soldier, second a yachtsman and third an antiquarian?nor are his claims to these distinctions boasts. His early passion for the Army persists in the rigid, austere discipline of the Italian Court. He has yachted from blazing Syria to arctic Spitsbergen. Finally his carefully amassed collection of ancient Italian coins is scarcely rivaled. In this character of antiquarian His Majesty came to bright, frenzied Naples last week...
...make a bird census of the Labrador coast. The effect of the relentless bird slaughter of the natives on bird life will be carefully studied. Among the birds who will be studied are the Great Black Backed Gull, Glaucus Gull, Herring, Gull, Puffins, Razor Billed Aul, Black Guillemot, and Arctic Tern...
...great tri-oceanic divide is at these head waters, while the Continental Divide at Fortress Pass has been perplexing geologists for a number of years by its queer fluctuations. Water from the Columbia-ice fields runs to the Atlantic, the Arctic and the Pacific Oceans. Ascending the Athabaska River the party will approach the region from the north; camp will be made and the peaks of Mount Columbia 12,295 feet high, and the North Twin 12,085 feet high, will be attempted. If the peaks are reached, it will represent the first ascents from the northern sides, which...
...hangar all night. The thermometer was at 50 below 0. Buckets of hot oil poured into the motor next morning sped the getaway. With an offshore wind under tail, Captain Wilkins and his pilot, hardbitten Carl Ben Eielson, steered 25° west of north, and vanished out over the Arctic Ocean. The plan was to fly thus for six hours, then turn southwest, fly two hours, then turn back to Point Barrow. The territory thus circumscribed, 50,000 square miles lying polewards of Wrangel and Whitney islands had never been viewed by man.? It might contain land. . . . But Captain Wilkins...
...Tsar, Ostheimer expects to make observations regarding the divide fluctuations of Fortress Pass. The Great Divide, which is only 8,000 feet high in this region, causes a variation in the direction of the flow of the glacial streams which makes all the water at times flow toward the Arctic and at other times toward the Pacific. Since these streams serve to distinguish the boundary lines between Alberta and British Columbia, observations, regarding them are desired by the Canadian government. At one time, in fact, the shifting of the courses of these streams was so erratic that...