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...North Pole and the Pole of Inaccessibility, to Point Barrow, Alaska, they had peered out of their gondola for new lands, and in a strip of white waste 2,000 miles long by 10 to 100 wide, had spied none. They had seen seals, roaming polar bears, their own flags (Italian, Norwegian, U. S.) sticking up at the top of the world on iron-pointed staves dropped into the ice- but not so much as a rocky islet had arisen out of the vast Polar Sea. Disappointed yet jubilant they had flown past Point Barrow, on down the Alaskan coast...
They moved out of Kings Bay one dazzling polar morning, their silver ship soaring over an ocean of crystal glare. Their northward course was slightly west of the line taken by Flyer Byrd two days previously (TIME, May 17). The day was to be Ellsworth's birthday and he wondered whether fortune would bring him the present he longed for- new land, Ellsworth Land...
...world, judging by the past performance of their craft, though Byrd's Fokker Josephine Ford had flown with astonishing success where Amundsen's planes failed last year. There would be fame enough for one and all. Yet it was absurd to deny rivalry. Each party of polar pilgrims carried flags to plant, or drop, for the U. S. or Norway, upon whatever continent or islands have lain hidden to date in the polar fastnesses...
Events of the week among the polar pilgrims were as follows...
BLACK SUNLIGHT-Earl Rossman -Oxford University Press ($1.75). With so many bold men preparing these spring days to explore by air over the icy wastes of the Polar Sea, this journalistic account of life on the upper fringes of Alaska makes a well-timed appearance. As Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson agrees in the preface, it is a good kind of introduction to "the friendly Arctic" for folk who have never been there, since Author Rossman was a tenderfoot when he took his cinema cameras to the Eskimo village of Wainwright* and settled down for the hard winter...