Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Captain Robert A. Bartlett, for Arctic exploration, a Charles P. Daly medal...
...Last week the trumpet of daring was pressed to the lips of heroism and sounded a venture. In an airplane Captain George Hubert Wilkins will undertake next spring a direct passage from Point Barrow in Alaska over the Ice Pole to Spitzbergen?slightly less than 1,900 miles of Arctic. Vilhjálmur Stefansson, veteran North rider, on whose last trip Captain Wilkins served as second in command, will devote himself to the details of preparation...
...will deny the possibility that eventually the Arctic regions will be filled with lanes of human traffic. If Captain Wilkins can fly successfully from land to land across the polar desert, he will hasten the eventuality. That is the great utilitarian purpose of the venture. The sporting and the scientific purposes converge on the Ice Pole, which is farther distant from any port than any other spot in the Arctic, and which for this reason is more difficult of access even than the North Pole itself. Scientifically, there are reasons for supposing that the Ice Pole is surrounded by land...
Lieutenant Commander R. E. Byrd, who commanded the naval planes which accompanied the Mac-Millan Arctic expedition, said that these planes were fit for service and were the best equipment to be had for the purpose...
Rear Admiral William S. Sims, retired, declared that in his belief the warship of the future is the airplane carrier; that the Navy Department has no aviation policy; that it is hazardous to send airplanes into the Arctic. Of the Shenandoah, he said: "My idea as to that whole business is this: We may presume that the commander and his staff were the best people the Navy Department could supply. If they were not, their designation was a criminal act. And assuming they were the best, if there was any interference from outside by people less competent...