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Like a pouting lip, the promontory of Northeast Foreland juts from Greenland's poleward face into the Arctic Ocean. Across a 300-mi. gap of ice-choked water lies the intricately indented coast of Svalbard (Spitsbergen). Down between them, on maps, runs a frizzy line enclosing a white blob which cartographers have labeled "unexplored." Reports received in Copenhagen last week indicated the frizzy line would have to be changed. Just inside it, Dr. Lauge Koch, Danish scientist-explorer, had found a chain of mountainous islands...
...Koch's expedition, operating from the sturdy little baseship Gustav Holm, anchored just under the 80th parallel, has been exploring northern Greenland by air for two years. Two nights on the same day last week brought the total distance covered up to more than 25,000 mi. without one mishap. The other flight was westward, over the Northeast Foreland lip to Peary Land. It discovered that a mountain range beginning at a deepcut mouth, Denmark Fjord, runs out on the lip. Skimming over vast desolate plains lying between this range and the great inland mountain chain. Dr. Koch concluded...
...Koch, 40, has been poking around in the Arctic since he was 19. He sailed with the bicentenary jubilee "North-Around-Greenland" expedition (1920-23), later commanded three government geological surveys to East Greenland, the last in 1930. For that year the American Geographical Society awarded him its Charles P. Daly gold medal...
...left in the midst of the bloodless quarrel between Denmark and Norway over possession of the Greenland coast north of Scoresby Sound (TIME. June 8. 1931 et seq.}. Denmark-said Norway in effect, defending the rights of Norwegian hunters to settle there-had never fully explored this part of her huge colony. Dr. Koch proceeded systematically to answer that objection by proceeding north from Scoresby Sound, charting as he went...
...hunters, Assistant Biologist Clarence Cottam of the U. S. Biological Survey this week had good news. On the coast and islands of North Carolina he had found eel grass coming back. A flowering saltwater plant, it normally mats the Atlantic coast's shallow-mud flats from Florida to Greenland. In 1931 it began to disappear. Simultaneously many a brant, Canada goose and black duck began to shrivel and die. Eel grass is the staple winter food of brant, important to other waterfowl...