Word: barents
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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Seventeen fur-bundled men and a fox terrier had passed in an airship completely up and over the Earth's icy pate, parting that wilderness as a comb might part the unexplored thatch of a wild man from Borneo. From Spitzbergen in Barent's Sea via the North Pole and the Pole of Inaccessibility, to Point Barrow, Alaska, they had peered out of their gondola for new lands, and in a strip of white waste 2,000 miles long by 10 to 100 wide, had spied none. They had seen seals, roaming polar bears, their own flags (Italian...
...Leningrad (where she had waited two weeks for repairs and good weather on her way from Rome-to-Nome). Pausing only long-enough to refuel and bundle themselves more thickly in furs, Colonel Nobile and his mates cast off again and sailed all through another Arctic night, out over Barent's ice-strewn sea for Spitzbergen. The headwinds that had buffeted the Norge over Russia, causing her to wallow and pitch like a great grey air whale, changed to following winds that added speed and made life more endurable for the wakeful voyagers, forced to stand close-packed...
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