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...Greenland an Exception...
...This distorted idea of the fact is probably due to an historic idea that the north is dreadfully cold, and to the fact that the present-day school geographies are usually incorrect on this point. Greenland, however, is an exception to the rules as it has a heavy rainfall and a high altitude, both of which factors tend to produce heavy glaciation. Nevertheless, on the great Canadian Archipelago there is no trace of glaciation for the past thousand years...
...Patten sailed late in March on the "Seneca," whose duty is to patrol the southern limits of the ice fields and to warn steamers of any danger. A few days after sailing the first of the icebergs was met. These icebergs are over a year old, coming down from Greenland a year ago, and, although growing smaller in the warmer water, many of them will be carried back to the north and will regain their size. The "Seneca" also encountered miles of "slop" ice-fields, the largest being nine miles square...
...Baldwin began his lecture by describing the conditions in the Arctic Sea. There exist vast ice-packs that move slowly along the course of least resistance. The obstruction of Greenland and America on one side and of Asia and the northern archipelago on the other keep the ice in the Arctic Sea. Much of it piles up on the shores in great packs; the rest is forced by the southern winds from Alaska in a narrow path across the polar regions. A cache set adrift at Point Barrow on the Alaskan coast by Captain Melville of the Jeannette, was picked...
...Baldwin has already made several attempts to reach the North Pole. He served as meteorologist in the North Greenland expedition of Commodore Peary in 1893-94, and in the Wellmann polar expedition five years later. He established four depots of supplies from the south to the north coast of Franz-Josef Land as basis for a proposed dash for the Pole and three safety stations on the northeast coast for use on the return march. He was the first leader selected to head the Ziegler polar expedition...