Word: labrador
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Captain MacMillan sailed for the Arctic in June 1927, from Wiscasset, Maine, on the schooner "Bowdoin", with the purpose of establishing a scientific research station on the north coast of Labrador. During the fall and winter of 1927 to 1928, contact with home was constantly maintained by radio, and the programs he received were also appreciated by the Eskimos as well as his whole party. This winter Captain MacMillan is telling, by story, motion pictures, and slides, the experiences of the expedition and some of the results obtained, as well as the accumulative results of previous expeditions...
British doctors, approving heartily of Commissioner Lansbury's efforts to arrange for sun bathing, wondered how he would arrange for the sun. London is as far north as Labrador. In 1927 there were but 183 London days in which less than .01 inches of rain fell...
Cast and Robert Wood, in the Sikorsky called 'Untin' Bowler, were at Port Burwell, Labrador, last week, trying to get away, detained by bad weather. Crushing ice damaged their anchored ship. A half-gale swept it to sea, a total loss...
...Wood into a Chicago hotel room and talked sport, adventure, glory at him. The trip would be safe and sure. They would fly from Chicago to Milwaukee, make a courteous gesture to Leif Ericsson's statue there, go across Canada to Cape Chidley at the northernmost tip of Labrador, skip over water but in sight of land to Cape Walsingham on Baffin Island, jump across Davis Strait to Mt. Evans, Greenland. From Mt. Evans they would cross the Greenland ice cap to Angmagsalik and then over water to Reykjavik, Iceland. From Iceland they would try for Bergen, Norway, stopping...
...Wood, none of whom could navigate a ship except by dead reckoning, thus set off in the 'Untin' Bowler last week. They landed at Great Whale on Hudson Bay, were held there two days because of bad weather. Next stop was to be Port Burwell, Cape Chidley, Labrador. The silence that ensued left followers of the flight more serious things to ponder than the origin of the name 'Untin' Bowler...