Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...biggest oyster farms and where now is the seaplane port of a commercial aviation school of which Capt. von Gronau is chief. All three flights were made in tandem-motored Dornier Wai flying boats. In 1930 it was a five-year-old craft which Amundsen had used in the Arctic and which now rests in a Munich museum. This year and last it was a newer ship, named Groenland-Wal( Greenland Whale). On each flight Capt. von Gronau took a crew of three from his school. Students Franz Hack and Fritz Albrecht as mechanic and radioman made all three flights...
...polar dawn comes in March, sunset in September, noon in June. Last week it was mid-afternoon in the Arctic as all over the world meteorologists, astronomers and geophysicists traveled to work for the Second International Polar Year. Their most exciting assignment was to watch for the effects of the Sun's eclipse on Aug. 31. Then will follow a dull, methodical twelve months of measurements, computations and recordings...
Hardy young H. George Watkins, who headed the British Arctic Air Route Expedition in Greenland last year, wanted to lead an Antarctic exploring party this year. But money was scarce and a U. S. airline wanted him to go back to Greenland, make further studies. Hence last week Explorer Watkins sailed from Copenhagen again, this time as chief of the Pan American Airways East Greenland Expedition. At the same time another party was en route from the U. S., the Michigan-Pan American Airways Greenland Expedition. Also last week Transamerican Airlines, which had begun tentative surveys of the northern...
...Shorty") Cramer and a radioman to fly the proposed route?and lost them?Pan American did not equip its expeditions with aircraft. For a year they will study weather, hunt for landing fields. Watkins' party will maintain two bases about 70 mi. apart near Angamagsalik, just south of the Arctic Circle. The Michigan group, which is associated with the International Polar Year research, will make its main camp about 100 mi. above Uperniski, several hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle. It will forge across the interior of the Greenland...
Juan Terry Trippe, president of Pan American, took pains to mention last week that the work in the Arctic in no way indicated abandonment of his company's other projected transatlantic route via Bermuda and Azores...