Word: baffin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...supposed destination) to New York Harbor (TIME, Sept. 8). This year he had hoped to be the first airman to cross the Greenland ice cap, but Cramer accomplished that feat last fortnight on his way east. After several weeks exploration of Greenland von Gronau planned to fly via Baffin Island, Hudson Bay, Ontario to Chicago...
Hardy Pilot Cramer, accompanied by Radioman Oliver Pacquette, was on his way more than a week before he was discovered. From Detroit he flew his Diesel-powered plane to Hudson Bay, Great Whale, Wakeham Bay; thence to Pang-nirtung, Baffin Island; across the Davis Strait and across the Greenland ice cap-a route never before negotiated by airplane to Iceland; dropped down to the sea with engine trouble, made repairs, flew on to the Faroe Islands; the Shetlands; again eluded observers...
...MacMillan will make his annual skirt of Labrador and Baffin Land, this time with a flotilla of three boats. Antarctica. A tourist trip to Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd's Little America last Antarctic summer was abandoned, may occur next December. Last season Consul Lars Christensen, Norwegian whaling tycoon, steamed completely around the Antarctic Continent, looking out for whale feeding grounds and spotting a few landmarks. Sir Douglas Mawson, the Australian, spotted a few more. Africa- On Jan. 27, 1863 the late David Livingstone took a sheet of blue foolscap* and wrote to "His Excellency the Governor of the Cape...
...district. Several years later Rev. W. G. Walton, Anglican missionary to northern Indians and Eskimos, returned to civilization for the first time in 30 years, went to Kingsville with a pocketful of jack Miner's goose tags gathered from Moose Factory, James Bay, to Baffin Land. From all tags returned the nesting place of the eastern Canadian goose was revealed to be around the shores and islands of Hudson Bay and Baffin Land. The nesting time is April...
...meeting (in New Orleans) the scientists chose able Dr. Franz Boas, anthropologist of Columbia University. Born in Minden, Germany, 72 years ago, Dr. Boas became interested in ancient man at the Universities of Heidelberg, Bonn, Kiel. In 1887, three years after he returned from his first exploration, at Baffin Land, he married Marie Krackowizer of New York, has had three children. He has been a member of the anthropology department of Columbia for 34 years, belongs to 31 scientific societies...