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...Wilkes's antarctic coastline "Wilkes Land," and cartographers of many another nation followed suit. But not the British. Long afterward an Australian named Sir Douglas Mawson went over the Wilkes route, claimed that Wilkes had made mistakes or misrepresentations. These were attributed by Wilkes's defenders to polar refraction, which sometimes makes land below the horizon appear above it (a phenomenon also seized on by Robert Peary's defenders to explain Peary's mistakes in Greenland). Later it was shown that Mawson himself had erred because of the same illusions. Finally in 1939 the Australian Government...
...from the Bay of Whales. In Philadelphia was celebrated an antarctic centenary-the discovery of the Antarctica Continent by Charles Wilkes. To observe this anniversary, Philadelphia's well-heeled American Philosophical Society assembled a group of seamy explorers and scientific greybeards to review a century of U. S. polar exploration. They dined sumptuously (food from Holland's, Philadelphia's famed Negro caterers), but their talk was of privation and of hungry men: Wilkes, Kane, DeHaven, Hall, Greely, Peary, Stefansson, Bartlett and other polar tough guys...
...dreams, Dr. Thomas C. Poulter, Polar explorer, saw a 37-ton Jules Verne monster sidling over ice crevasses, carrying an airplane pickaback, and accommodating in its insides everything four explorers would need for a twelve-month tour of the Antarctic...
Alligators, hippopotami and petrels all have muscle valves which close their nostrils when they enter water. Seals and polar bears can also pull in their ears. But man is "a terrestrial being," with no "musculature for closing the nostrils, and keeping water from the nasal cavities and their appurtenances." Thus wrote Dr. Hermon Marshall Taylor of Jacksonville, Fla. in the Journal of the American Medical Association last week, agitating against humans participating in that No. 1 Florida pastime: swimming. Contrary to popular belief, he said, not contaminated water but plain swimming, even in pure pools, is responsible for the boils...
...Clarence Alonzo Mills of the University of Cincinnati believes that sun spots cause economic depressions. He also believes that the biggest cause of disease in the U. S. is not poverty, urban life, or plain ignorance, but "cold polar waves traveling down the central trough of the continent." Last week in a book-full of statistics, weather maps and medical long shots, Dr. Mills published his latest ideas on the ill winds of North America...