Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This peculiar conduct of the Graf was by way of preparation for her projected Arctic flight. It satisfied the officers that, in good weather, the ship can put off and take aboard personnel for hunting or exploration. But the proposed rendezvous with Sir Hubert Wilkins' submarine Nautilus was abandoned because of the diver's misfortunes in crossing the Atlantic (TiME, June...
...this doleful news reached the old Nautilus toddling over the Atlantic toward England. What if, in the Arctic, an iceberg clapped against them...
...route to be taken was undetermined -even the direction was undecided. The Lindberghs might fly east from New York across the Arctic Circle via Labrador, Greenland and Spitsbergen to Peiping, a course that would take them only 850 mi. from the North Pole. Or they might fly west across northern U. S. or Canada (where water stops are plentiful) to Seattle. British Columbia or Alaska, thence to bear along the Aleutian Islands, the southmost tip of Kamchatka, Siberia and across the stepping stones of the Kurile Islands to Japan...
...eastern route. Greenland has been attained by planes from North America or Europe three times before. Spitsbergen figured importantly in the Arctic flights of Wilkins, Byrd, Amundsen. But no plane has yet blazed a trail thence into the Orient. Greatest danger on either route: fog. The Lindbergh plane is radio-equipped. Mrs. Lindbergh, who qualified for a private pilot's license last fortnight, will share the controls...
...idly in Boston Harbor. Another, the General Greene, was still out searching. This abnormal situation of course pleases navigators. Last year the Coast Guard apprised them of 440 dangerous bergs. For this year some 250 bergs had been predicted.- Where are they? For Greenland glaciers calved their bergs and Arctic ice floes cracked up as usual. Lieutenant Commander Edward H. Smith of the Coast Guard, who expects to be on the Graf Zeppelin's proposed flight this summer, last week thought he knew. Bergs drift south from the Arctic toward Labrador and Newfoundland. Normally an "ice fence" exists along...