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...Pole. This time he was commanding officer. When he returned the next year after having been within 97 miles of the pole, England made a knight of him. Five years later, he set out again. Terrific ice packs wrecked his ship. He and his men camped on an ice floe for six months, were finally rescued by a Chilean trawler. In 1921, English bells were rung as Sir Ernest sailed away on another white voyage, his last. The following year on Jan. 5, he died of a, heart attack off South Georgia Island, 2,800 mi. northeast of Explorer Byrd...
...wealthy Chicagoans. The money will build dormitories, commons, a science hall, a headmaster's house, a chapel in memory of onetime (1897-1900) Head master Alfred Gardner Welch, who died of exposure after saving a group of students who drifted out on Lake Michigan on an ice floe in dead of winter...
...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...