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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long winter night sets in. They will camp again from October until March when the daily quota of sunlight is large enough for travel, having drifted near the North Pole during that North encampment. Then they will have to race against the spring surface melt and hopefully arrive at Longyearbyen on Spitzbergen Island in mid-June. There the H.M.S. Endurance will be on hand to return them to England

Author: By Mark W. Oberle, | Title: From the Far Corners of the Earth... | 7/19/1968 | See Source »

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