Word: baffin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alumnus of Bowdoin College, he did post graduate work at Harvard, and started to teach. In 1908, however, he joined Commander Peary's Arctic expedition, and since then has devoted most of his time, with the exception of a few years, to explorative expeditions, including the MacMillan Expedition to Baffin Land, the National Geographic Society and Field Museum Expedition to the Arctic, and the Rawson-MacMillan Field Museum Expedition to South Greenland...
...trip would be safe and sure. They would fly from Chicago to Milwaukee, make a courteous gesture to Leif Ericsson's statue there, go across Canada to Cape Chidley at the northernmost tip of Labrador, skip over water but in sight of land to Cape Walsingham on Baffin Island, jump across Davis Strait to Mt. Evans, Greenland. From Mt. Evans they would cross the Greenland ice cap to Angmagsalik and then over water to Reykjavik, Iceland. From Iceland they would try for Bergen, Norway, stopping at the Faroe or Shetland islands if necessary, and from Bergen to Copenhagen...
...drowned, Father Quinn granted conditional absolution. He tried to comfort 200 members of their families, and he listened to an improbable story which was being told in all the villages. Some fishermen said that early in the week a white ship had overtaken their fleet in Baffin Bay. Making no answer to their hails, she had lingered near their boats until the sunrise, vanishing then in a flash of light. Terrified, the men in the little boats had put for home before a gathering wind; warned of disaster, they had stayed ashore the night of the storm...
These icebergs rise in the Baffin Bay region, far north in the Arctic. Wellknown Arctic explorers declare that it takes about 100 years or more for these huge masses to form in the glacier fields, and it is because these bergs are so solidly formed in rock-like strata that it is so difficult to demolish them. It takes the bergs about one year to drift down from Baffin Bay to the Northern area of the Banks. Their length at this time averages about five city blocks, while their height runs from 200 to 300 feet. It was calculated that...
...Baffin Island's unexplored west coast yielded to an expedition under direction of Publisher George Palmer Putnam, evidence of a great new mountain range that may yet cause the map of North America to be changed. Traces of a pre-Eskimo civilization (called by the explorers Tunic) pointed to a lost race...