Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yours of the 16th instant to hand a day or two ago. You should have been with us this summer. The finest weather that I have ever seen in the Arctic. No ice, no wind, sun-plenty of it-all the time. We covered 8,500 miles. I never saw "Greenland right, nor the opposite shore until this time...
Roald Amundsen, Polar pilgrim: "The trophies of my recent three year Arctic trip have been stolen from their packing cases, somewhere in transit through customs. The cases arrived at Oslo, Norway, via Seattle, containing only straw. I lost rare skins, a cinema camera with many feet of film, and many priceless scientific objects. I am thankful, however, that my scientific records escaped...
...same ore veins run under the Pacific into the Dutch-owned islands of the Malayan Archipelago. The other great deposit is in the Bolivian Andes, 15,000 feet above sea level. Traces of tin have been found in Alaska on the edge of the Arctic Ocean but "no developments . . . justify any hope that the United States will eventually become independent of foreign sources of supply," according to the 1922 Tin report of the U. S. Tariff Commission. Practically no tin is found in continental U. S. Appreciable deposits exist in Cornwall (known since the time of the Phoenicians, the Philistines...
...invaded Pacific, basaltic floods were pouring out through the tension-cracks of the continental interior. The fissures, through which the lavas rose, became sealed with frozen basalt...A new, heavy, deep-lying crust became ready to receive the water running in from the ancient Pacific Ocean; the Atlantic, Arctic, and Indian Oceans thus came into being...
...barbarian collection has 21 fur deals curiously decorated and constructed as one of the features of his display; Arctic whips, boots, sled fixtures, and crude musical instruments add interest to this exhibit...