Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...smell of fish, fowl, game, plants, men, sea water and crude oil steamed into Sydney, Nova Scotia, last week; took on a supply of fuel oil and at once left for Wiscasset, Me., its home port. It was the Bowdoin, Arctic exploration ship of Commander Donald B. MacMillan. His months of collecting showed that many specimens of plant and animal life existed farther north than scientists heretofore have realized. Commander MacMillan shut off from world news so long, was most eager to hear about trans-atlantic airplane flights...
...Arctic, the midnight sun fades, the cold and the dark close...
...Arctic, the icebreaker Braganza, searching for lost members of Pilgrim Nobile's crew, was forced last week by the weather to turn south...
First to leave the U. S. is the stout sailing boat City of New York (nee Samson), veteran of Arctic service, with the three airplanes and.all explorers except a small group headed by Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd himself. This smaller group will leave during the middle of September from Hampton Roads, Va., on the whaler Larsen. Both ships are scheduled to reach Dunedin, New Zealand, in the last week of October. Here a third ship, the Chelsea, joins the flotilla, which then proceeds 2,300 miles across the Southern Ocean to the Ross Sea and the Bay of Whales...
Capt. James Clark Ross: Six times he invaded the Arctic, then turned South and in 1842 gave his name to the Ross Sea. Fifty-eight years later, no explorer had penetrated closer to the South Pole...