Word: coast
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...other keep the ice in the Arctic Sea. Much of it piles up on the shores in great packs; the rest is forced by the southern winds from Alaska in a narrow path across the polar regions. A cache set adrift at Point Barrow on the Alaskan coast by Captain Melville of the Jeannette, was picked up off the coast of Iceland five years later. It had been driven along by the moving ice-floes...
...Baldwin has already made several attempts to reach the North Pole. He served as meteorologist in the North Greenland expedition of Commodore Peary in 1893-94, and in the Wellmann polar expedition five years later. He established four depots of supplies from the south to the north coast of Franz-Josef Land as basis for a proposed dash for the Pole and three safety stations on the northeast coast for use on the return march. He was the first leader selected to head the Ziegler polar expedition...
...also some porcupine quill work and bead work of the Crow and Cheyenne Indians, presented by Mrs. Farlow. Dr. William McM, Woodworth has donated to the University some objects that he had collected on his trip to the Pacific Isles and that his brother had collected on the northwestern coast...
...tournament at Niagara-on-the-Lake, August 30, by defeating W. F. Johnson 6-4, 6-4, 2-6, 8-6; and then won the challenge round by defeating I. C. Wright 1-6, 2-6, 6-2, 6-4, 6-4. Niles then took part in the Pacific Coast championships at Del Monte, California, but was defeated in the third round by M. Long...
...Janeiro and will remain in Brazil until the rainy season comes on in October. The Brazilian government, through the government survey, has offered facilities for prosecution of the work of the expedition. On the completion of the field work Professor Woodworth will proceed via Buenos Ayres to the coast of Chill for the purpose of investigating shore line changes, leaving Valparaiso in time to reach Cambridge at the end of the leave of absence...