Word: floe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...actually present when General Nobile and his companions came to grief can rightly judge of the events that followed or can say whether or not Nobile is to be blamed for being the first to leave the ice floe," declared Captain. E. P. Lundborg, who last summer flew to the rescue of Umberto Nobile of the dirigible, Italia, wrecked in the Arctic...
Fatty Randolph (International) kept cranking when a flood in Washington had torn from the bank an ice-floe on which he was standing. Neither his camera nor his body were ever found...
...reach the north pole by a new route. He believed that there was a warm current which carried the ice across the north pole, and he conceived the idea of building a special boat, which ice would not crush but which would be pushed on top of an ice floe. He intended to freeze the boat into the ice pack on the east coast of Greenland, and to drift across the pole. He carried out his ideas and after a year and a half, far north of the Arctic Circle, he concluded that he would miss the pole, and consequently...