Word: crockers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Explorer Donald B. MacMillan was ci the same opinion. In the midst of final preparations for his own flight to the Pole and to fabulous Crocker Land, MacMillan outlined the rescue work he proposed to carry out before any explorations. After making a base at Etah, Greenland, early in August, he would, he said, take two planes to Cape Columbia to see if Amundsen had reached there. If he had not, the planes would then fly on the line from Cape Columbia...
...blind spot" on the most modern of maps. In 1906, three years before he reached the Pole, Admiral Peary stood on a cape of Ellesmere Land, looked northwest, swore he could discern, about 120 miles off, the peaks and promontories of what has since been called Crocker Land. In 1914, Peary's old lieutenant, Explorer MacMillan, struck out from Axel Heiberg Land over the floes for 150 miles-and found nothing. On the way, however, and again back in camp, he had two glimpses of distant headlands. One of these visions faded away into spindrift as he watched...
...Etah, Greenland, MacMillan will explore the ice-gap of Northern Greenland, examining and mapping the interior from the air as it has never been possible to do afoot; and from an air-base on the upper tip of Axel Heiberg Land will fly westward in search of the dubious Crocker Land...
Another factor in MacMillan's favor this trip will be the weather. He made his last try for Crocker Land at the beginning of an Arctic winter. With 24 hours of daylight to work in, he expects to accomplish in a few days what it used to take months...
...seemed not unlikely, therefore, that Amundsen, too, might search for Crocker Land; might set foot thereon, if such a land exists, and claim it for Norway. As Amundsen plans to fly north in June and MacMillan does not leave Maine until June 15, the chance of Amundsen's making a prior claim seemed nearly as good as the chance of anyone finding anything to claim...