Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Black Sea, in the mid-Pacific. Finally, when the earthquake men were able to co-ordinate distances reported by several stations, their eyes popped. The circles they drew all intersected in Baffin Bay, between Greenland and northeast Canada. Never before had a major quake occurred within the Arctic Circle west of Greenland. If the epicentre had been in a populous area, observed the seismologists, the loss of life & property would have been tremendous...
...great value of the Arctic is in the field of science: in biology, zoology, geology, ichthyology, and anthropology. Work in this latter field has revealed the most northern people in the world to be living as men did at least 10,000 years ago. Although it is difficult to place a monetary price on the value of scientific discovery, the results of such expeditions of research will justify the expenditure of every cent invested in the northern country...
...June we are going back in the Bowdoin to the Arctic for the sixteenth time, to make a study of the life history of the North American birds. In order to study the birds we must follow them...
...there value in dashes to the poles, since they have been discovered. There used to be every reason for such expeditions, but, with our present knowledge of the territory, they are futile. The public enthusiasm for such enterprises has waned. At present, there are no expeditions operating in the Arctic...
...prefer the Arctic to the Antarctic. My field of work has been in that country, and there is more romance connected with it. For 300 years mentried to reach the pole, and since we are a northern race, all of our early expeditions were directed in that direction...