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TIME based the assertion that famed Explorer Stefansson is "of Danish stock" upon the fact that his forebears, who came from Iceland, were indisputably of Danish nationality. They were indisputably Danes because Iceland accepted the rule of Danish kings in 1381 and did not until 1918 become a separate kingdom whose King is, today, also the King of Denmark. Iceland had been, for over 500 years, as Danish...
Died. Capt. Wilhelm Mueller, 63, of the Hamburg American liner Reliance, friend of countless West Indian tourists; of heart failure; on shipboard, returning to New York from a cruise to Iceland, Spitzbergen & the North Cape, during which he sent relief supplies to the Nobile expedition...
...little of its heat at Newfoundland. It drifts eastward to help warm all of Europe, including of course England.* Europe is warmer than North America. Off Europe the Gulf Stream Drift splits into three streams. One goes between the Faeroe and Shetland Islands north of Scotland, another along west Iceland, the third along the western side of Greenland...
Engaged. Percy Aldridge Grainger, 45, curly-headed Australian pianist composer, to Miss Ella Viola Strom, Swedish poetess. Said Mr. Grainger, "She is ... a radiant Nordic?as lovely as the morning. ..." The honeymoon; tramps in Glacier National Park, Montana and in Iceland...
...Stewart, one-time commodore of the potent Seawan-haka Yacht Club, Oyster Bay, L. I., was lost with a party in a hurricane off the Florida coast about 25 years ago. The Liev Eriksson, from Norway to Newfoundland, with a party including William Washburn Nutting was lost off Iceland in 1924. Alain J. Gerbault, famed French tennis player, bound around the world, is two months overdue in the South Sea Islands, believed lost. Last week cables reported a minor mishap when the yacht of H. Gordon Selfridge, leading London merchant, grounded on the Dalmatian coast...