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...Absolute hokum!* That would be 150 feet of travel per day. The fastest moving glaciers in the world, in New Zealand and Greenland, only move 30 feet per day." Dismissing the report from Scientist Geist that heavy rains have possibly released soft material along the contact points and lubricated the glacier's groove, causing it to move. Glacialist Washburn explained that glaciers move because of pressure in their catchment basins at their sources. Alaska's glaciers are survivals of the ice age on the North American continent. Washburn believes that Alaska's glaciers are dwindling, will eventually...
...there is another Eskimo that can draw half as well," said Artist Kent, "I don't know of his existence. I know for a fact that nothing produced in Greenland is even comparable. Ranking with all comers he certainly is one of the foremost of artists who have drawn in the North. On more specific grounds I would cite for their special excellence his perspective, his action, his strong sense of both the pictorial and dramatic impact, and above all, the values in his comprehensive epic of Eskimo life...
During the War Dr. Charcot commanded a submarine chaser, won the Croix de Guerre and Britain's D. S. C. Afterward he turned to Earth's other Pole, took the Pourqnoi Pas on seven trips to Greenland, exploring the coast, sounding the bottom, studying Eskimo folklore. In 1928 the sturdy old man in his sturdy old ship searched long & hard for his lost colleague, Roald Amundsen. By this time he had presented the Pourquoi Pas to the French Museum of Natural History, which sponsored most of his expeditions...
...July 1935, Jean-Baptiste-Etienne-Auguste Charcot took the Pourqnoi Pas once more out of St. Malo, bound for Greenland. Said he then: "This voyage will be my last." Objectives were to bring back a party of scientists, make additional studies of the polar current and more extensive deep-sea soundings, visit a settleent of Eskimos unknown to Europeans. The explorer was expected in Copenhagen late this month to attend a reception in his honor, receive a gold medal...
...island of the trees in the greenland of the silk-silence I stand before a so afternoon in fire it is himmelstufig in the bramble-world the stems sheen the birds flute-twitter in an oubli of temps what am I waiting...