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...data. Both men want to add to man's knowledge of weather. The Maligin tour is also primarily a weather hunting trip. Indeed the main purpose of every serious current Arctic expedition is to record weather conditions. Both the British and the Germans have had parties on the Greenland ice cap all winter. The German leader. Professor Alfred Wegener, is now considered dead (TIME, May 18). The isolated British watcher, Augustine Courtauld, feared dead, was reported safe last fortnight. Packing up in Manhattan is the Williams American Polar Expedition, under Flavel Manley Williams, retired Navy officer. The Williams party...
White Silence. To Greenland last July went a party of 15 youthful English scientists headed by H. G. Watkins, 23, to chart part of a prospective Arctic air route between England and Canada (TIME, July 14). One of the party was Augustine Courtauld, 27, son of rich Tycoon Samuel Augustine Courtauld (artificial silk). He volunteered to remain alone through the winter on the Greenland ice cap to make meteorological observations. According to their agreement, Watkins led a party from the base camp near Angmagsalik in March to relieve Courtauld. They searched in vain for his hut in the snow, finally...
Wegener. Capt. Ahrenberg then planned to fly in search of Professor Alfred Wegener, head of a German expedition farther north in Greenland, whose mission was similar to that of the British party. Professor Wegener set out from his base last September to take supplies to two men who, like Courtauld, were stationed at a central observation camp on the ice cap. Professor Wegener never returned. Just as Capt. Ahrenberg was about to join the search last week, word was received from a relief expedition which had penetrated to the camp with a powerful portable radio. The occupants of the camp...
...equipped with hydraulic thermometer, lead sounding instruments, ascension shells to blast its way to the surface if necessary. Electric gills fed air to its 13 occupants (only one was a woman). A telegraph cable paid out behind from a drum to keep the Dipsey in touch with its Greenland base. By sheer "spellin' book navigation," the Pole was reached and buoyed with a seven-starred flag (by 1947 the U. S. had joined a hegemony of North and Central American nations). Leaving at the Pole the last whale in the world (all others had died by 1935) the Dipsey...
Under the "present system" no white man can settle in Greenland or even land there without special permission from the Danish Government. Trade is a Govern-ment monopoly, Eskimos are benevolently encouraged not to become too civilized...