Word: polarizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Captain John Bartlett, 83, who introduced 62 years ago the first steam vessel into Newfoundland sealing expeditions; uncle of Captain Robert Abram Bartlett, of Peary's polar expedition, and who himself accompanied Peary on his first expedition; at Fredericton...
...northernmost regions of the world will be explored by dirigible and not by airplane," Commander Donald MacMillan revealed to the CRIMSON yesterday. "The future of the North Pole regions will be determined by the dirigible. In my Polar Expedition in 1925 I went as far north in a ship as it is safe to go. No one will ever go beyond Etah without endangering his life...
...problem," said Commander MacMillan speaking of Polar discovering expeditions, "is not in getting to the North Pole, but in knowing you are there if you get there. I am certain that one or two explorers have passed over the extreme top of the world, but they have no way to prove it. The only exact way of locating the Pole is by a careful study of the sun, the moon and the stars, in their relationship with each other, but since the moon and stars cannot be seen in summer when explorations can be made, no one has yet found...
Before his talk Captain Bartlett gave his opinion as to the mysterious disappearance of Marvin one of Peary's Polar associates in the Polar regions. Setting out with only Eskimo companions, Marvin had sought to make his way over the arctic floes. For some reason he disappeared. The explanation given by one of the Eskimos that on crossing between the floating masses of ice, Marvin missed his footing and plunged into the water. Last year the Eskimo repudiated this entire explanation and declared that he was the murderer himself. Although great publicity was given to this episode, the latter story...
This adventurer has sailed to many of the most remote parts of the world. He was Captain of Perry's famous Polar ship, the Roosevelt; he followed the dogsleds out over the Polar zone to within 100 miles of the Pole itself. Again, he sailed as Commander of the Karluk of the Canadian Arctic expedition, and, when that ship met the perils of floating Ice, it was Bartlett's prompt action that kept the party alive. Four men went off into the bitter Polar night and were never heard of again. Captain Bartlett marched across the floes to the coast...