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Beneath the Arctic ice last week for a several-weeks stay was the second U.S. submarine in eight days to take the short route to the North Pole: the nuclear-powered Skate. The first, Nautilus, ducked under the Pacific and emerged six days later in the Atlantic, mostly to prove it could be done. The Skate, skippered by young (37) Commander James Calvert, has popped up several times in ice gaps -within missile range of Russia. Traveling since then in expanding circles around the top of the world, Skate returns next month to New London, Conn. By then, Skate will...
With no guiding stars or radio beams to give her position, how did the U.S.S. Nautilus navigate under the Arctic icecap? The secret is inertial navigation-a new means of finding latitude and longitude wholly without external reference points. Last week it was also used in the Arctic by the U.S.S. Skate, will go in even more sophisticated form into all the Navy's nuclear submarines, some of them designed to creep deep in enemy underwaters with the Polaris missile...
...modern Antarctic pioneers at the South Pole, Rear Admiral George Dufek last week urged Washington to send atomic-powered heat and light. If that seemed pretty cushy for explorers, it made practical scientific sense. The polar fuel bill is huge, and along the Arctic's 3,000-mile DEW line as well, U.S. radar stations could well use small reactors instead of flying...
...into the fantastic beneath-the-sea new world of mountains and deeps that is the nuclear submarine's true element. Its course: along the Barrow Sea Valley, a deep underwater canyon that leads and widens out from Alaska's Point Barrow into the 12,000-ft.-deep Arctic Sea basin...
White Wilderness (Buena Vista) is the awesome product of three arduous summers and winters spent by eleven Walt Disney photographers in the Canadian and Alaskan far north. Their cameras caught enough to make any naturalist drool with delight. A polar bear plunges into the icy Arctic seas to give vain chase to a frisky seal; cocky bear cubs attack a one-ton walrus and drive him from his perch; a wolverine, nastiest of all far northern beasts, shrugs off the dive-bomb attacks of an osprey to climb a tall tree and devour a fledgling. Most impressive scene...