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Thus advertised the Alaska Line this summer, believing that many a tourist would like to see what few tourists have seen?the grinding, gleaming polar ice pack, which squeezes ships to death in winter, retreats north of the Arctic Circle in summer. For its pioneer cruise the company refitted its 3,868-ton icebreaker Victoria, booked passengers at $250 to $390. Last week, laden to the gunwales with 500 "arm-chair adventurers" and well started on its 7,000-mile, 26-day itinerary, the Victoria sailed from Nome for the dash to the ice pack's fringe. Later the ship...
...clan tartan of navy, black, red and green. His interest in the Cowal Games of the U. S. is sporting rather than historical. After schooling at St. Paul's, Mr. Moore joined Peary's Arctic Expedition in the summer of 1897. The next summer he hunted polar bear in Hudson Bay. After graduating from Yale in 1903, he spent a year touring and buying horses in Arabia. He was a major in the U. S. Army during the War. Afterward, he entered his father's tool manufacturing firm of Manning. Maxwell & Moore, became its president...
Soon after the War the vast waters lying between the South Polar ice barrier, Cape Horn and the Cape of Good Hope threatened to go the way of the Arctic whaling grounds. Again Captain Larsen set out to find more whales. This time he went through the ice pack into the Ross Sea* where no explorer had been for a decade. Thence he pounded his way into the Bay of Whales where six years later Richard Evelyn Byrd established a base at Little America. Once again Captain Larsen made whaling history, by arriving on a Christmas Eve. Four days later...
Little America, Antarctica, March 27 (Via MacKay Radio to the United Press)--Alone in the windswept fastnesses of the South Polar regions, Rear-Admiral Richard E. Byrd prepared today to spend the next six or seven months in a tiny hut 123 miles south of Little America...
...must to all men, Death came last week to Walter Wellman, 75, oldtime Polar explorer, who tried to fly the Atlantic when Charles Lindbergh was eight years...