Word: capes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Repulse, the Prince of Wales aboard, left Cape Town for the island of St. Helena where a brief stop was to be made. On Aug. 14 the Prince will transfer to the light cruiser Curlew which, drawing less water, will be able to land the British Heir Apparent at Montevideo, his first stop on the South American continent...
Rugged Water. Cape Cod and its amiable natives who make their living from the sea, or more profitably from the summer visitors, is the background against which Joseph C. Lincoln wrote the novel of this name...
...would establish an air base between Etah, Greenland (the expedition's intended boat base) and Cape Columbia, Grant Land (intended take-off for flights seeking the Pole and fabulous Crocker Land). Here gasoline, food, a radio-operator, smoke-bombs, an Eskimo and dog (for forced retreat), would be left...
...Peary and the Bowdoin steamed on again, picking their way cautiously through rock-strewn channels. They threaded Windy Tickle to lie in the lee of Cape Harrigan while MacMillan and Engineer Jaynes went to Jack's Lane to recover supplies cached there by MacMillan on his last return from the Arctic...
...Beyond Cape Harrigan, as far as a powerful telescope could take the eye to sea, vast ice floes stretched-the densest in years, according to local fishermen. At Cape Mugford, the Bowdoin's propeller was damaged...