Word: novaya
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fleas in two, swallowing one half, tossing the other half at him. At last he reached the Arctic tundra, exchanged his horse and cart for reindeers and sledge. Reaching the Bear Islands he stayed there with Eskimos until a whaler came by, took off to the waters north of Novaya Zemlya, "where the ocean flowed like a huge river among the icebergs...
From Berlin the Graf resumed flight (her 202nd) to Leningrad, thence pushed on toward the island of Novaya Zemlya, and Franz Josef Land, where philatelists' mail was to be exchanged with the Russian icebreaker Malygin. Unless further unknown land were sighted, Dr. Eckener did not intend to push farther north. There was only the remotest possibility that he would venture to the Pole. More likely was the tentative course east to Northern Land, south to Cape Chelyuskin and back to Archangel via the Siberian Coast. Approximate distance: 6,200 mi. Estimated flying time...
...expedition, sponsored by the International Society for the Exploration of the Arctic by means of Aircraft (abbreviation: Aero-Arctic) has a threefold purpose: 1) search for new land beyond Novaya Zemlya, hitherto unexplored; 2) study Arctic meteorology for its effect on weather the world over; 3) study ice conditions for their effect on oceanography in the northern hemisphere...