Word: nunatak
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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...Society. Airplanes were used for transportation as far as possible into the Yukon territory, but the actual exploration was carried on with dog teams alone. Three mountains, all over 14,000 feet in altitude, were discovered and mapped. The most interesting scientific feature discovered by the party was a nunatak glacier which had retreated over six miles in the past twenty years, an extraordinary rate of movement for any glacier...
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