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...Alexander the Great was marching on India and Aristotle was lecturing to his classes, Pytheas, a native of the Greek colony of Massilia (Marseille), sailed out through the Pillars of Hercules and turned north. After discovering Britain, he pushed on-to the Orkneys, to the Shetlands, perhaps even to Iceland. Then, like thousands after him in the next 2,200 years, Pytheas the Greek was halted by a dense world of ice. His account of his six years' voyage was later dismissed as balderdash, and the world of the north was unvisited until the voyages of the Vikings...
They caught their share of bad weather and good parties, more than their share of good luck. They came down with flu in Greenland. They almost missed Iceland, got in just before the weather closed down tight. Their progress through Europe was slowed by sightseeing and weather (said Mrs. Evans: "He's going to have to make up some awfully good excuses...
...good ship Atlantis, an oceanographic research vessel, was back in Woods Hole, Mass, last week, after two months of seagoing mountaineering. Purpose of the voyage: to study the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the submerged mountain range that divides the Atlantic Ocean-from Iceland almost to Antarctica. The range breaks the surface at only a few points (the Azores, Ascension Island, Tristan da Cunha). But if the Atlantic were drained dry, it would be one of the world's most spectacular ranges, with several peaks 20,000 feet above the ocean floor...
Greenland is getting greener and Iceland's ice is shrinking. The Arctic is losing its chill. According to Dr. Hans Ahlmann, professor of geography at Stockholm University, all the cold lands around the northernmost Atlantic are entering a balmier climatological...
...heyday of the Vikings, before 1300 A.D., the populous republic of Iceland lived largely by agriculture; the Norse raised sheep in Greenland, where no sheep graze today. After 1300, the cold crept down and the Icelanders gave up farming. The Greenlanders were exterminated, perhaps by starvation, perhaps by glacier-fleeing Eskimos. Now that the tide has turned, Dr. Ahlmann, a good Norseman, hopes the warm cycle will last for at least a few centuries...