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...them. At Winnipeg 300 young Canadians and Newfoundlanders quickly filed applications for places with the "Company of Adventurers" that since 1670 has been "trading into Hudson's Bay." Accepted applicants will follow the sort of life already begun for young Tinling, who is destined for a post on Baffin Island, possibly Arctic Bay at the northern...
...years since his discharge as a World War I Army sergeant, Larry Gould has been a scholar and professor. But several times he has played hooky in the remote corners of the globe. A geologist and geographer, he went on an expedition to Greenland in 1926, to Baffin Island in 1927, and to the Antarctic in 1928 as chief scientist and second-in-command of the famed Byrd Expedition. There, with Pilot Bernt Balchen and a radioman, he nearly lost his life in a gale that at one point held him "streamlined horizontally...
Northwest Passengers. The St. Roch picked up some passengers on the way. She ferried an Eskimo family from Baffin Island to Herschel. Island, not far from the mouth of the Mackenzie River. Mother, father, grandmother, five children and 17 dogs insisted on staying topside, pitched their pup tent on the open deck...
Northeast Gateway. The least valuable of the main airfields were five which the U.S. built in subarctic Canada to ferry short-range aircraft direct to Europe. They are located at The Pas (in Manitoba), Churchill (on Hudson Bay), Southampton Island, Fort Chimo (near Ungava Bay) and Baffin Island's Frobisher Bay. They lie far north of what is likely to be the real northeast gateway to Europe: the great base at Goose Bay on Labrador's Hamilton Inlet. To bring Goose within easier reach of the continental U.S., the U.S. Army built a base at Mingan, Quebec, which...
...largest: Greenland, New Guinea, Borneo, Madagascar, Baffin, Sumatra, Honshu, Great Britain, Celebes, South New Zealand...