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...Navy Department, following experienced judgment forbids further flights out of Etah, Greenland, by the amphibian planes it had detailed to cooperate with Exporer MacMillan in his search for the Fabulous continent, "Crocker Land," which Admiral Peary thought he saw looming up west of craggy Cape Hubbard. (TIME, June...
Thus, last week, ended a third effort to explore the top of the world in heavier-than-air craft.* In other radio messages to the National Geographic Society (his sponsor), Commander MacMillan detailed his plans for retreating down the Greenland coast in advance of the winter ice-floes already making in Smith Sound. At every step, the Far North had rebuked the trespassers with unusually inclement weather. In July, ice-floes delayed the Bowdoin and Peary as far south as Battle Harbor, Labrador. When they reached Etah, they found that heavy winter storms had pared down the beach and piled...
...Spitsbergen, usually and incorrectly written Spitzbergen, is the main island of an Arctic archipelago off the coast of Greenland. The principal islands of this archipelago are: Spitsbergen, Prince Charles Foreland, Edge Island, Barents Island, King Karl's Island, Hope Island, Bear Island...
With Arctic winter and its impossible flying weather only a fortnight off, Explorer Donald B. MacMillan and his fellow Arctic-argonauts (TIME, June 22 et seq.) at Etah, Greenland, last week fumed and fretted at fogs and gales which delayed their work of finding west of them, on Ellesmere Island, a suitable spot for a food and fuel way-station between Etah and Cape Thomas Hubbard (Axel Heiberg Land), from which advance base they were to make search flights still farther west where fabulous "Crocker Land" may or may not await discovery...
...Eskimos of Etah, Greenland, the gods still tread the earth. They had seen white men before but never any such as those who last week enabled them to talk to one another at a distance by means of curious, bell-ringing contraptions connected by wires; who showed them silent, black-and-white scenes of people walking, gesticulating, moving their mouths as in speech, upon a white sheet spread in a dark place; who demonstrated a still stranger spark-spitting apparatus they called a "radio," by which the white men said they talked with their kind far south...