Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like a pouting lip, the promontory of Northeast Foreland juts from Greenland's poleward face into the Arctic Ocean. Across a 300-mi. gap of ice-choked water lies the intricately indented coast of Svalbard (Spitsbergen). Down between them, on maps, runs a frizzy line enclosing a white blob which cartographers have labeled "unexplored." Reports received in Copenhagen last week indicated the frizzy line would have to be changed. Just inside it, Dr. Lauge Koch, Danish scientist-explorer, had found a chain of mountainous islands...
...Koch, 40, has been poking around in the Arctic since he was 19. He sailed with the bicentenary jubilee "North-Around-Greenland" expedition (1920-23), later commanded three government geological surveys to East Greenland, the last in 1930. For that year the American Geographical Society awarded him its Charles P. Daly gold medal...
...hand at drilling through a fog wall into port-such exciting ventures will be the climax of an infinitely painstaking job which Pan American inherited a year ago. At that time the company hired an adventurous young British scientist named Harold George Watkins who previously had headed the British Arctic Air Route Expedition in Greenland for a purpose similar to Pan American's. Explorer Watkins took charge of a Pan American East Greenland Expedition with a base camp about 80 mi. north of Angmagsalik. Meanwhile the University of Michigan Pan American Airways West Greenland Expedition, commanded by Dr. Ralph...
When? If? Such preliminary facts and the final reports to follow, go to the 58th & 59th floors of Manhattan's Chrysler Building into which Pan American moved its offices last week. There they are coordinated by famed Explorer Vilbrmir Stefansson, Pan American consultant, who advocated commercial arctic flying ten years ago. The coordinated data are analyzed by Chief Engineer Priester who knows about ships, men and operations; by Communications Engineer Leuteritz who knows about radio and navigation. Finally it goes to a spacious, buff-papered office on the 58th floor from which French doors open upon a balcony overlooking...
...have bid for a part in any prospective service. Since the surveying job is bigger than any single agency could afford, all interested parties have agreed to pool their findings. Thus into the pot go the charts made by Pan American, by the British Arctic Air Route Expedition and by Germany's Von Gronau in the north; and by Imperial Airways at Bermuda, Aeropostale at the Azores, where France got exclusive operating privileges from Portugal. Imperial, of course, has practically automatic concessions in Bermuda, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Labrador. Pan American has secured exclusive operating concessions in Iceland. From Denmark...