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Sought Bridge. Perhaps the first irony was that private Russian initiative developed Alaska for the imperialist Czars. In 1741, when Russia sent two ships east from the Kamchatka peninsula in Siberia, it was interested mainly in settling a debate over the existence of a land link between Asia and America...
There is an unavoidable air of patronage in this, as there is in even a good documentary film about Eskimo customs or shaman cultists of the Kamchatka Peninsula. Miss Dawkins is clearly a more highly civilized woman than the people she writes about. However, she bridges the distance between herself and her creatures with pity and a decently reined imagination. Mere realism would have made them caricatures, or the gothic grotesques popular with the school-of-the-South. Even her first story, which begins with that old stock bit of scenery, the scrubbed cabin porch, convinces in the end that...
...major science, oceanography is young, and to most nations a relatively remote business of water-temperature graphs or current lines on a chart. But last week Japanese fishing vessels, trailing long, baited lines off the Canary Islands, hauling dragnets along banks off Kamchatka, were providing a dramatic demonstration of how skillful interpretation of those graphs and lines...
...steep, it will damage the fishermen's dragging apparatus. If a fast current flows near the bottom, fish will be scarce. A fast current at higher levels may make dragging difficult. In the past few years, Japanese survey ships have discovered four new dragging grounds off Kamchatka and the Aleutians...
...their bases near the Caspian and Aral seas, they would be testing at 7,700-mile range plus as compared with the best 6,300-mile range of the U.S.'s Atlas, hence nailing down a longer strategic reach. If the Russians fired into the Central Pacific from Kamchatka at 3,800-mile range, they would at least be testing out their capabilities in a range bordered by such major U.S. naval bases as Pearl Harbor, Guam and Midway...