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...Wilkes route, claimed that Wilkes had made mistakes or misrepresentations. These were attributed by Wilkes's defenders to polar refraction, which sometimes makes land below the horizon appear above it (a phenomenon also seized on by Robert Peary's defenders to explain Peary's mistakes in Greenland). Later it was shown that Mawson himself had erred because of the same illusions. Finally in 1939 the Australian Government caved in, put Wilkes's name on nearly all the 1,500 miles of shoreline which he had mapped...
...Trib Feb 20, 39 edit'i pp like many of his articles have nat'l radio repetition by the commentators. Not only is he a correct and influential scientist (his interview in Nature mag June 1931 p 354 brot about Bartlett rescue expedition to Greenland) but he is one of our best stylists as writer and speaker, said Worcester Gazette re his long address opening famous Clark University Oriental Conference of statesmen and sinologues. Without style no writer can reach fame and indeed no statesman reach wisdom: for imagination and extemporaneous ability enter essentially here. Hence the disastrous falldown...
...Morskovo Puty (Central Administration of the Northern Sea Route-Glavsevmorput' for short), kicked its chief. Professor Otto Schmidt, upstairs into a vice-presidency of the Academy of Sciences, named 46-year-old Ivan Papanin (who had made himself famous by drifting from the North Pole almost to central Greenland on an ice pan) to be head of Glavsevmorput'. Then the Soviet press started whooping up the drift of the Sedov as a national adventure story. Its goals: to drift closer to the North Pole than Nansen's celebrated Fram (1893-96); if possible, to reach the Pole...
...through medical school, hung out his shingle in Brooklyn. Interested by the plans for Peary's Arctic expedition of 1891, he volunteered, was accepted. Later Cook went on a Belgian Antarctic expedition and won the admiration of Roald Amundsen. Cook's other expeditions were to Greenland, Alaska, Mount Everest, Borneo. He was rated a popular and able explorer...
...borg." To conquer not only England but most of what is now the Baltic States was the bloody feat of Denmark in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries under her Hero-Kings, Cnut the Great and the Valdemars. In the 13th Century valorous Norwegians led by Haakon the Old seized Greenland, Iceland, the Orkneys, the Shetlands and the Hebrides...