Word: drifting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Francisco where her owner, Explorer Roald Amundsen of Norway, had instructed that she should be sold (TIME, Aug. 24). From Nome were relayed some of the adventures that had befallen the Maude during the months when she lay locked in ice-floes off East Cape, Siberia, first trying to drift up over the Pole, then trying to get home...
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...
Almost at once, a solid cushion of fog robbed them of all observation of drift and ground speed. A powerful gale sprang from the northeast, forced them west, cost them heavily in priceless gasoline. Two hours later, they outran the fog, came out above a solid white of the polar ice, ridged, hummocked, corrugated like a sheet of twisted steel...
Pole, Amundsen's direct line of retreat, circling south and east on their way back. The success of this search would rest largely on whether or not Amundsen had got marooned on drift ice, which would carry him southeast, around the tip of Greenland at the 'rate of about 10 miles a day. MacMillan's third plane would wait at Etah or Cape Columbia in case the rescuers needed rescuing...
Russell W. Porter, of Springfield, Vt. (astronomer and topographer of the Ziegler North Pole Expedition, 1901-5), pointed out that on Prince Rupert Island (Franz Josef Archipelago, northwest of Spitzbergen) were log houses, food stores; that the drift of the ice there was from the Pole. Said he: "Amundsen knows all this. I shall give him a year or two years...