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...only the North Pole with observatories, the massed nations have sent some men to the Antarctic Zone, some to tropic regions. Africa and South America have six stations each. Some 250 men, and a few women, were last week scattered between South Orkney Island off South America and Kraulshaferi, Greenland, between Hooker Island and Point Barrow, Alaska, whose spring icepack was a U. S. cinema villain last week in Igloo (TIME...
...Polar Year expense account has been cut to $30,000. Of the U. S. observers. Dr. Ralph Belknap, University of Michigan scientist, will be farthest north at the Kraulshafen, Greenland, station. The others will be at Point Barrow and Fairbanks, Alaska. Abandoned are plans for a station in Grant Land where the Northern Lights are thought to originate...
Before getting down to work. Dr. Belknap last week was jaunting in the Arctic. With Marie Peary Stafford, Arctic-born daughter of the discoverer of the North Pole, and her two sons, he went to build a tower of rocks on snow-covered Cape York in northwest Greenland, in Admiral Peary's memory...
Under Captain Robert ("Bob") Bartlett the motored schooner Morrissey bore them through Davis Strait, past Kraulshafen, Greenland, where Dr. Belknap sent two assistants ashore; across Baffin Bay, across Melville Bay. Atop Cape York the jaunters found plenty of rocks but little labor to haul cement and scaffolding up the heights from the Morrissey. Seeking Eskimo helpers, the party went down the hill and over to Thule. a nearby village where lives Hans Nielsen, Danish Governor of the region...
...Admiral Peary's favorite among his hunters and the last of the four Eskimos who stood with him at the North Pole and shared his triumph. All the Eskimos showed almost childlike joy in seeing Admiral Peary's, daughter once more for, as she was born in Greenland, they feel that she belongs to them, and the Admiral's two grandsons also came in for their share of the cordial greetings...