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Itinerary. Sailing out of Wiscasset, Me., nosing up through Davis Strait and Baffin Bay to a boat-base at Etah, Greenland, MacMillan will explore the ice-gap of Northern Greenland, examining and mapping the interior from the air as it has never been possible to do afoot; and from an air-base on the upper tip of Axel Heiberg Land will fly westward in search of the dubious Crocker Land...
Conditions. In 1914, it took Macmillan 33 days to cross the great glacier that is Ellesmere Land, between Greenland and Axel Heiberg Land. In airplanes, these laborious 580 miles could be traversed in less than five hours. It took him a week to push out on the floes 150 miles with dog and sledge. The planes now at his disposal will have a daily cruising range of about 1,200 miles...
...first to reach and explore the northern, eastern, and southern shores of North Cornwall and the first to reach Finlay Land, seen some sixty years ago by the Franklin Search Expedition. The trip upon which he will embark in June will be for the purpose of investigating southwestern Greenland, a land about which mystery clings even now. About 1000 A.D. this section of Greenland was inhabited by some 7,000 Norsemen, but since they have since completely disappeared, apparently without reason. At the present time there are two theories as to their disappearance. One is that the Norsemen were wiped...
...expedition from its start last summer to its finish when the planes arrived at Washington in September. He was extremely fortunate in the matter of accidents until the fateful last lap of the trip, when the Army flier attempted to span the Atlantic by the way of Iceland and Greenland...
Captain McMillan described a typical "day" on shipboard during the long and monotonous winter nights, when his boat was anchored off the coast of Greenland. "We used to get up at about 8 o'clock in the morning", he said. "We'd eat breakfast and then change the charts in the magnetic laboratory, which we set up for the purpose of studying terrestrial magnetism and its influence on navigation...