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There were three noteworthy omissions from the Navy's list: in the Pacific, the Galapagos Islands, which have been the subject of touchy negotiations with Ecuador; in the Atlantic, Greenland and Iceland-about which the Russian bear might be touchy...
...like that. In the 26 years since his discharge as a World War I Army sergeant, Larry Gould has been a scholar and professor. But several times he has played hooky in the remote corners of the globe. A geologist and geographer, he went on an expedition to Greenland in 1926, to Baffin Island in 1927, and to the Antarctic in 1928 as chief scientist and second-in-command of the famed Byrd Expedition. There, with Pilot Bernt Balchen and a radioman, he nearly lost his life in a gale that at one point held him "streamlined horizontally...
When the war began, Russia had 137 weather stations north of the Arctic Circle; Norway had 75, Denmark five. From Greenland to Alaska there were only seven little weather stations-four of them in Canada. U.S. Army air bases established during the war left enormous areas still uncovered...
Russia and Norway have a comparatively easy job keeping their arctic meteorologists alive and at work. Their stations can be reached by sea or land, while some parts of northern Canada and Greenland are accessible only...
Colonel Hubbard's plan calls for two main bases, one at Winter Harbor on Melville Island, the other at Thule in Greenland. Each would have a staff of about 50 men, with a powerful radio station and an airfield. Each main base would serve as headquarters for four satellite stations as much as 500 miles away, the maximum practical distance for supply planes. One station is planned for Peary Land, the farthest-north land on earth. Arctops may even put stations on the floating arctic ice, many miles from land...