Word: capes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...MacMillan and his fellow Arctic-argonauts (TIME, June 22 et seq.) at Etah, Greenland, last week fumed and fretted at fogs and gales which delayed their work of finding west of them, on Ellesmere Island, a suitable spot for a food and fuel way-station between Etah and Cape Thomas Hubbard (Axel Heiberg Land), from which advance base they were to make search flights still farther west where fabulous "Crocker Land" may or may not await discovery...
...seaplanes out of Etah was cut down from 1,000 to 700 miles by the absence of a smooth stretch of beach in Etah harbor, the planes not being able to rise from the water with as heavy loads as they could lift from land. The round trip to Cape Hubbard and back is some 600 miles, leaving a margin of safety which Commander R. E. Byrd judged insufficient...
After several chilly, disappointing visits to the towering, ice-clad peaks across Smith Sound, the NA1 and NA3 settled into a narrow, sheltered neck of water called Flagler's Fjord. It was only a third of the way to Cape Hubbard, but an admirable landing spot. The next days were spent, when weather permitted, plying to and from Etah with stores of oil, gasoline, food, many trips being necessary to stock the depot adequately...
Maude. Explorer Roald Amundsen's schooner Maude, icebound all last winter in the region of the New Siberian Islands, southwest of Bering Strait, in a fruitless attempt to drift over the North Pole, was reported last week at East Cape, Siberia, free of the ice and bound for Nome, Alaska. Though equipped with radio, the Maude has not been heard from directly for months. Presumably she was been withholding gasoline from her power generators, for use in crashing the floes. Hearing of her return, Explorer Amundsen, in Copenhagen, conferring with German dirigible experts upon a proposed pole-flight...
Transportation facilities are rapidly being created in the "Dark Continent." The Cape-to-Cairo route of about 5,000 miles by rail and water lacks only 300 miles of railway line. Also, the Benguella railway line from the Katanga copper fields to the African west coast is largely completed, and the unfinished portion is being steadily lessened. Altogether there are 23,000 miles of existing railway mileage in Africa, which provide freight as well as passenger facilities. More and more African railways are used for commerce; in the beginning they were patronized mainly by travelers...