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...most important feature of the whole trip was a stone church found on the way home at Gotthaab, Greenland, which he was certain had been erected by early Norsemen. It was finely preserved; the walls, laid without cement, being smooth as a ship's deck. It had evidently served as a fortress, with peepholes for windows. Ruined homesteads lay near. Next summer MacMillan will investigate the Gotthaab remains more fully, and other remains on an island near Labrador, to establish the route by which the Vikings penetrated his native New England...
Lashed by equinoctial gales in and out of harbor along the Greenland coast, the ships Bowdoin and Peary, homing from Etah with Commander Donald B. MacMillan...
While learned British scientists expatiated at Southampton a new Ice Age that will drive civilization to the earth's poles for warmth, (see above), Commander Donald B. MacMillan and his aids steamed homeward along the shores of Greenland from their attempted exploration of the Polar Sea by air, (TIME, June 22 et sec.) Their work had been of a kind which, if the prophets are right, will be rated by future generations-if not with the exploits of Columbus and Magellan- certainly with those of Hinton (Atlantic-crossing aeronaut), Leigh, Wade and Nelson (globe-fliers) and Eckener (Atlantic crossing...
...heaved into the seas of seething slush to lighten the stranded hull. Nearby, a cruising iceberg burst with a dull report, setting up a monstrous wash which swept the Bowdoin off her perch. On southward steamed the ships. The elements relented. Dread Melville Bay, frigid storm-pocket of that Greenland Coast, lay unexpectedly calm and free of ice. Still skirting shore, the ships made for Disko Island (their coaling station on the way north), the Peary leading the way with MacMillan aboard. The latter discussed with Commander Byrd the likelihood of repairing one of their two disabled planes and making...
...Erasing from the map unexplored areas of Greenland, Baffin Island and Labrador. This was to be accomplished largely by aerial photography and cartography...