Word: bays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ceremony took place at Long-year Valley, on Advent Bay, Spitsbergen, the principal settlement of the island. Minister Berg read a notification of annexation declaring the archipelago to be Norwegian territory and subject to Norwegian law. Up went the Norwegian flag, sailors from the patrol boat Heimdal presented arms, the guns of the Heimdal boomed salutes, the people sang the national anthem and a prayer for Norway was offered. One Lassen of the Ministry of Justice became Prefect of the Territory...
...first Dr. Hartman's explorations will be archaeological-in the watery streets of Paleopolis, earliest Greek colony in Italy; now on the deep bottom of the Bay of Naples; and at Jerba, long-drowned port of Punic Carthage...
...trial flight, MacMillan and Byrd crossed Smith Sound to Sabine Point on Ellesmere Island, where Lieut. A. W. Greeley wintered in 1884, losing 18 soldiers by starvation. Soaring 90 miles farther westward, the planes came to the head of Froler Bay, turned and were back in camp in an hour, having covered in two hours a route of 200 miles which would have taken dogs and sledges a fortnight...
Last month, the French army transport Loiret was crossing the Bay of Biscay. It was vile weather, but poof ! thought the officers, what of that? They were 160 kilometres off shore and their hydrographic charts showed 4,000 to 5,000 metres of water under keel...
...French officers, astounded, took soundings along the line of breakers for 50 nautical miles. Docking at Rochefort, they reported that the depth of that central stretch of the Bay of Biscay no longer averaged several thousands of metres, but between 34 and 70 metres...