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...Accumulation of new technical data on Smith Sound, Ellesmere Island and Grinnell Land for subsequent attempts to explore the Polar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: MacMillan's Frustration | 8/31/1925 | See Source »

MacMillan expressed his opinion, which echoed Explorer Amundsen's that the only practical vehicle for aerial polar exploration is the dirigible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: MacMillan's Frustration | 8/31/1925 | See Source »

...seeking eagles' eggs will pause to secure his foothold in the last dizzy crotch beneath the eyrie, Commander MacMillan and his fellow polar pilgrims (TIME, June 22 et seq.) last week dropped anchor at their boatbase, Etah, Greenland, unloaded their three Navy seaplanes from the stout ship Peary, and set about clearing and leveling the one steep little beach their harbor offered for a takeoff. Five Eskimo families were found in the "village," the men of which assisted in the arduous task of building skidways and tumbling large rocks aside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: MacMillan | 8/10/1925 | See Source »

...While the ships were jammed, their crews ventured overside for snow-fights on the floes; for long walks, two miles over the groaning pan ice to the nearest open water. Animal life abounded on the frozen bay-flocks of little auks, eider duck, sportive seals and an occasional roving polar bear. One 800-lb. female bear swung up alongside the Bowdoin, was received with a bullet by MacMillan. Doctors of the party cut out the poisonous liver and brain, the empty stomach, for study...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: MacMillan | 8/10/1925 | See Source »

...October, Ellsworth will meet his chief at a U. S. dock, discuss a polar flight by small dirigible or super sea plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Home | 8/10/1925 | See Source »

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