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...regular one-way fare of $574 saves the passenger $40; $970 round trip is $70 less.) Cruising at 300 m.p.h. at about 17,000 ft. altitude, SAS made only two stops on the 5,800-mile flight to take on gas. The plane let down at Winnipeg and at Greenland's Sondre Stromfjord, where the 6,000-ft. airstrip is known to its icebound U.S.A.F. maintenance crew and pilots as Bluie West 8, its wartime code name...
This discovery was no surprise to Bruce C. Heezen of Lament Geological Observatory, the Vema's scientific skipper. Two years ago, the Vema found another canyon south of Greenland, which it traced north and south for 1,200 miles on the bottom of the Atlantic. Heezen believes that there must be many such gorges and that they are the channels of mud rivers that formed the level plain on the ocean floor...
...high time, in the opinion of Greenland-born Dr. Svend Frederiksen of Washington's Arctic Institute, that the world take account of its changing climate. For 50 years or more, says Dr. Frederiksen (who likes to describe himself as one of the world's two practicing Eskimologists*), the climate of the Arctic has been warming up, making agriculture possible where it has not been practiced in modern times. Southern Greenlanders are raising cattle and sheep as the Viking colonists did a thousand years ago-before their colony was destroyed, probably by increasing cold. Oats can be grown...
...Arctic seas are warming, too. Eskimos of Greenland have had to abandon sealhunting; the seals have moved farther north. Instead, the Eskimos are fishing for cod, which have moved in from the south. Even north of Siberia the water is growing warmer; the Russians are having less trouble with ice on their far-northern sea route...
...Frederiksen believes that warmth and cold in the Arctic come in cycles of about 1,800 years. Before the last peak of cold, from which the Arctic is just emerging, Greenland was really green, and the sea between Greenland and Iceland was sufficiently free of ice to permit the tiny ships of the Vikings to sail without disaster. Dr. Frederiksen predicts that this condition will return, and that great areas of Siberia, Canada and Alaska, now almost uninhabitable, will be opened to agriculture. Population will move north, and the world's balance of power may be affected...