Word: camped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Roval Canadian Air Force sent a C-130 from Resolute Bay this "morning" with a 3,000-pound payload of huts, newspapers, dog food, and tea for the summer camp. But a ten-knot wind made the airdrop unfeasible, and the plane returned from over the camp without dropping the supplies. A second attempt is cheduled for tomorrow...
...months, but the Arctic pack ice has only recently started to break in the waters surrounding this Navy research installation. Eight-hundred miles out on the ice, in an area usually populated only by polar bears, seals, and occasional gulls, four British explorers have set up a summer camp on a floe of old ice. They have been traveling for more than four months by dog sled...
Much discussion at the Expedition's base camp here has centered on "Stephansson's Theory," a rather simple assertion that the ocean beneath the pack ice contains enough animal life to support a handful of travelers indefinitely. Although this Expedition does not actually depend on game meat for survival, the number of large animals they actually sight will provide some idea of the theory's validity...
...rest. By this time the ocean currents had produced favorable ice drifting, sometimes ten miles a day toward the Pole. Yet at 83 North and 165 West, they are still 170 miles short of the spot on the International Date Line where they had originally planned to set up camp...
Another recent headache has been Herbert's pair of 15-watt "Redifor" army radios. For the past four days, fierce geomagnetic storms have prevented Freddy Church from receiving even a routine fix on the camp's drifting position. Even more powerful transmitters located on the nearby U.S. ice island T-3 have recently failed to reach the Naval Arctic Research Lab here...