Word: floes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They yelled to their dogs scattered on drifting floes. The dogs understood no Norwegian, the men knew no Eskimo except ilik (right) and iuh (left). Reversing Eliza, the men jumped from floe to floe, dragged the dogs by main force, assembled 53 animals. But as soon as unchained, the dogs leaped for the drifting floe on which rode the supply of whale meat. One dog, too stiff-legged to leap, was left...
...motored schooner Dora. With him were Alex ("Sandy") Austin, 21, and some Husky dogs. To get to Melville Island the party had to skirt the westerly shore of Banks Island, the westernmost of the stupendous archipelago which clutters the Arctic north of Canada. Off Banks Island an ice floe struck the Dora, shoved her completely over an uncharted islet, cracked her beyond repair. The two men managed to reach big Banks Island with sledges & dogs, proceeded northward, sheltering themselves in snow-block houses, cooking only one meal a day, at other times chewing quok (frozen meat...
Despite occasional dramatic refinements that tend to discredit the entire picture, Igloo is well done. Good shots: the company of walruses inching off the ice floe; Eskimos kicking a snowball back & forth with their insteps; a whale whamming its tail out of water; a polar bear shuffling over...
...fishermen and 100 horses clattered out of Helsingfors to drag the ice of the Gulf of Finland. For two days the expedition prospered, moved farther and farther out from the shore. Suddenly a shrieking, steel-grey blizzard swept down on them. With prodigious snapping and grinding a great ice floe broke away from the shore. All the fishermen and their steeds were swept out to sea on an island...
Chancellor Heinrich Bruning, that German Eliza who for the past 18 months has been leaping from one crisis to the next, landed on another ice floe last week and was saved for another half year from the bloodhounds of disaster...