Word: baffin
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...John Franklin, who had been the first to trace the MacKenzie and Coppermine Rivers some 25 years before, sailed for the arctic with 129 men in the ships Erebus and Terror. The party was last seen by a whaler near the entrance to Lancaster Sound (west of Baffin Bay) on July 26, 1845. England grew alarmed at their continued disappearance, sent out rescue parties which explored thousands of arctic miles, succeeded in finding traces of the lost expedition. Fourteen years after Franklin's disappearance the camp of the expedition was located on the island and a diary found which...
...discovered in it insects brought to Europe in 1829 by English explorers looking for a northwest passage to India. Three other of his valuable butterflies, now extinct, came from the swamp which was drained to build San Francisco. He paid $10,000 per year to collectors who went to Baffin Bay, Labrador, the tropics to find specimens for him. Some of the rarest are worth $20,000 a piece. Most of these are drab, colorless. The brilliant butterflies are common...
...data, exploring the ice cap of Greenland, making aerial surveys of the east coast of Greenland and into the far North-all for the purpose of linking England and her Dominion by a direct flying route. From Greenland west, the Canadian Government will conduct surveys over the wilds of Baffin Land...
Aware is the expedition of the obstacles to such a route, worst of which are on the Canadian side, where perilous Hudson Bay fogs and shifting pack ice beset the air traveler. (No one has ever flown from Greenland across the Davis Strait to Baffin Land.) It is recalled that in 1924 the U. S. Army round-the-world flyers required 19 days to pierce the fogs between Keland and Frederiksdal, on the south coast of Greenland; and that last summer Capt. A. Ahrenberg finally abandoned an attempted Sweden-to-New York flight after taking a month between Sweden...