Word: ice-clad
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...coming weeks Sea Shepherd’s decrepit black trawler, the Farley Mowat, will patrol the ice-clad waters of Newfoundland, as Canada’s 2008 seal hunt begins. The Canadian government has increased this year’s permits to allow the killing of 275,000 seals, 98 percent of them babies, in what Watson calls “the world’s largest marine slaughter.” And in spite of new government regulations designed to stop the live skinning and clubbing of seals, Watson says that his crews have already documented seals bleeding...
After twelve days in the vast loneliness of the world's last no man's land, six survivors of a crashed Navy flying boat, all members of the Byrd Expedition, were rescued on the edge of ice-clad Antarctica. Three of the crew had died...
...call "Denali's Wife." "Denali" had been climbed to the top but "Denali's Wife" had not last July when Dr. T. Graham Brown of the University of South Wales & party set up their base camp on the Foraker River. From there the climbers struggled to the ice-clad summit of Mt. Foraker's north peak, four days later through deep new snowdrifts to the crest of the south peak...
...Hollstein was heading east over the Allegheny '"Hell Stretch" with mail from Cleveland to Washington. His radio, which the Army had less than ten days to install for airmail service, faded out. Completely lost, Lieut. Hollstein ran into a soupy fog, made a crash landing on an ice-clad hill outside Uniontown, Pa. His head and face badly gashed, he managed to scramble out of the wrecked ship and summon aid to rescue his mail...
...back to warmer water, the camp on the ice-desert became a little city. You see the city live its life-dealing with whales, ice deserts, seals, penguins, wireless communications. The trip over the Pole itself is exciting in spite of a dreary monolog of explanatory comments by Floyd Gibbons, inserted in the U. S. Only silly shot: the opening sequence, with Byrd in a starched white uniform posed at his wheel, to explain why he went South. Epic shots: a school of killer whales lunging up for air; the ice-clad City of New York silhouetted against Ross Barrier...