Word: falkland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suburban Montreal last week mechanics were outfitting a sturdy plane for a special mission. The plane, a type designed for use in Canada's own North country, had been ordered by Sir Miles Clifford, governor of the Falkland Islands. It would stand by as part of the plan to rescue eleven men marooned on Stonington Island inside the Antarctic Circle...
...several scientific teams operated by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, the men have been on Stonington since early 1947. Their supply ship, the John Biscoe, left them there-with 100 huskies and a three-year food supply-for a two-year stint of charting unmapped icebound wastes and making geological, meteorological and cold-weather tests...
...fitting a single-engined Norseman, with $20,000 worth of extras: hydraulically operated ski-wheels plus floats, spare fuel tank, radio altimeter and a special compass for polar navigation. At month's end the plane will be tested, then dismantled, crated and shipped to the Falkland Islands...
...Tristan da Cunha. 2. The Galapagos Islands. 3. The Falkland Islands. 4. The Straits of Magellan. 5. Tierra del Fuego...
...taken out the dusty old skeleton of the dispute with Britain over the Falkland (Islas Malvinas) Islands (TIME, March 1) and rattled it for all it was worth, capped it all by making good on his promise to get the British railroad proprietors out of Argentina...