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...Nome, Alaska, get its name...
...frozen lakes passed underneath for 21 hours before the staunch dirigible Norge swooped slowly to her mooring mast at desolate Vadso on the north tip of Scandinavia, 700 miles from Leningrad (where she had waited two weeks for repairs and good weather on her way from Rome-to-Nome). Pausing only long-enough to refuel and bundle themselves more thickly in furs, Colonel Nobile and his mates cast off again and sailed all through another Arctic night, out over Barent's ice-strewn sea for Spitzbergen. The headwinds that had buffeted the Norge over Russia, causing her to wallow...
...Eskimo village of Wainwright* and settled down for the hard winter of 1923-24. An able newspaperman, Rossman put in his diary, and has here expanded, facts and fresh impressions which an habitue of the North might have omitted as commonplace: that an Alaskan city was called Nome when, in 1849, an Admiralty draftsman misread the notation "Name?"; that...
...Nobile, Lieutenant Riiser-Larsen, Major Scott (their English pilot), Lieutenant Mercier (their French pilot), Norsemen and Italians and one young female, Titina their mascot terrier ? the personnel of the good airship Norge as she soared above the Ciampino Airdrome to begin the first leg of her Rome-to-Nome transpolar flight...
...Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth entrained next day for Oslo, Norway, leaving Lieutenant Riiser-Larsen and the Norge's designer, Colonel Nobile, to conduct the Norge to Spitzbergen as soon as weather favored. There the chiefs will join her for the great adventure of flying over uncharted white wastes to Nome, Alaska. The base ship Hobby reached Spitzbergen a fortnight ago laden with materials for the Norge's northern bivouac and mooring mast...