Word: glaciered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These icebergs rise in the Baffin Bay region, far north in the Arctic. Wellknown Arctic explorers declare that it takes about 100 years or more for these huge masses to form in the glacier fields, and it is because these bergs are so solidly formed in rock-like strata that it is so difficult to demolish them. It takes the bergs about one year to drift down from Baffin Bay to the Northern area of the Banks. Their length at this time averages about five city blocks, while their height runs from 200 to 300 feet. It was calculated that...
...have instructed the army aviators to watch the skies when they are flying around and if they see a stork delivering a little baby to tell it of your desires." Thirteen. Twelve Jugoslav military planes flew from Belgrade toward Prague. Thirteen started. The unlucky one fell on a glacier in the Vorarberg sector of the Rhaetian Alps. Alpine guides found the pilot with his legs broken but alive. The observer, Colonel Petrovich, froze to death searching help...
...April, 1912, nobody followed icebergs, which drifted free, unchaperoned. One drifted into the liner Titanic, then the pride of the White Star Line. The Titanic sank with 1,513 people. Now, in April, 1927, with transatlantic travel reaching its spring height, with glacier-born icebergs drifting busily south, the Tampa, the Modoc sail northward, charged with preventing a repetition of the Titanic disaster...
...crew on shore waited for weather before flying out in a reserve plane to see how their chief fared among floes and hummocks which split, sometimes, with thunderous reports into leads of open water; which close again, sometimes, crushing whatever may have fallen in them like flies in a glacier...
...only man who has the made any sort of a comprehensive exploration in this region, and part of his work in fact, will involve the substantiation and elaboration of the reports made by these previous expeditions. The report of Hall, for example, in regard to the ice of Bruce Glacier which he traced into a canyon 20 by 100 feet will be followed up by Ostheimer and if possible he will make a more complete observation...