Word: kraulshafen
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...Polar Year expense account has been cut to $30,000. Of the U. S. observers. Dr. Ralph Belknap, University of Michigan scientist, will be farthest north at the Kraulshafen, Greenland, station. The others will be at Point Barrow and Fairbanks, Alaska. Abandoned are plans for a station in Grant Land where the Northern Lights are thought to originate...
Under Captain Robert ("Bob") Bartlett the motored schooner Morrissey bore them through Davis Strait, past Kraulshafen, Greenland, where Dr. Belknap sent two assistants ashore; across Baffin Bay, across Melville Bay. Atop Cape York the jaunters found plenty of rocks but little labor to haul cement and scaffolding up the heights from the Morrissey. Seeking Eskimo helpers, the party went down the hill and over to Thule. a nearby village where lives Hans Nielsen, Danish Governor of the region...
...tower-builders were in a hurry to dedicate their work and get away. Mrs. Stafford wanted time to buy her boys their school clothes. Captain Bartlett wanted to get away before the autumn freeze. Dr. Belknap wanted to get down the Greenland coast to Kraulshafen to get on with his part in the Second International Polar Year...
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