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...lost them?Pan American did not equip its expeditions with aircraft. For a year they will study weather, hunt for landing fields. Watkins' party will maintain two bases about 70 mi. apart near Angamagsalik, just south of the Arctic Circle. The Michigan group, which is associated with the International Polar Year research, will make its main camp about 100 mi. above Uperniski, several hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle. It will forge across the interior of the Greenland...
...Trader Welzl, lacking identification papers, was deported to his homeland Czechoslovakia. He had never heard of the place. Long before the War he had left Moravia to wander far & wide. Returned there a Czech, he lectured, dictated reminiscences (made literate by others), collected money enough to return to his polar home...
...return from the whaling trip Traveler Welzl was disembarked, at his own request, on the barren island of New Siberia. He discovered a cave abandoned by Eskimos, dug himself in before the polar storms broke. The winter night descended, the cold stiffened the tossing waves flat. High winter tides exploded the whole ocean's frozen surface into the air, with thunderclaps, bellows, sea-qiiaking crashes. At those sounds many a polar settler has burst out of his cave, run yelling along the shore waving his arms, insane. Traveler Welzl never stirred outside his cave, where the temperature touched 86° below...
...Explorers Club in upper Manhattan is a painting, done in the 'Arctic, of the late Rear Admiral Robert Edwin Peary (1856-1920) examining a meteorite. The canvas came from a pair of the North Pole discoverer's brown pants. The artist was Albert Operti, a Peary companion on two Polar trips. Particularly interested in that painting is Josephine Diebitsch Peary, the widow, first white woman to winter with an Arctic expedition. She lives at South Harpswell, Me. Next month her daughter, Mrs. Marie Ahnighito ("Snow Baby") Stafford, who was born "farther north than any other white person," and Mrs. Stafford...
...longer a member or a visitor to the Explorers Club is Dr. Frederick Albert Cook, from whose Arctic Club the Explorers Club evolved.* A venerable member is Major General Adolphus Washington Greely, 88, whose expedition to set up a U. S. meteorological base for the first (1881) Polar Year was lost and, save for seven men, destroyed by the Arctic...