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The story goes that a cartographer, mapping the central peninsula that jutted into Bering Strait from the Russian territory of Alaska, had no identification for the cape on its southern side. He simply made a note there: "? Name." In 1849 an erring draughtsman labeled the place Cape Nome.
Meantime the Krassin ploughed steadily down the Baltic, across the Atlantic, through the Panama Canal, up the Pacific Coast, through Bering Straits. Smaller (4,900 tons) than the luckless Chelyuskin (6,500 tons), it had special ice-breaking equipment which enabled it to crunch indomitably through the pack. When it...
Lord of the drifting ice pack that crushed and sank his Soviet icebreaker Chelyuskin (TIME, Feb. 26, March 12), jungle-bearded Professor Otto Schmidt has somehow kept his crew alive, fed and sheltered for two months in the - 20°F wilderness of the Arctic Ocean north of Bering Strait...
The giant crabs, salmon, herring and cod that swarm along the broken Russian coast of the Okhotsk, Japan and Bering Seas, were last week the subject of grave diplomatic conversations in Tokyo and Moscow. Russian property, they became international following the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) when the Japanese demanded...
When the Chelyuskin was within 150 mi. of the Bering Strait, the ice pack closed its fist, began its inexorable squeeze. On the decks, in the rigging, in Professor Schmidt's beard, a heavy load of ice formed. Last week the ice pack broke the Chelyuskin's steel...