Word: riiser
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Riiser-Larsen & Holm. The Norwegian flyers Captain Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen and Captain Lutzow Holm aboard the S. S. Norvegia last week expected to continue exploratory efforts for a time. Last December they found land between Coats and Enderby Lands (TIME, Jan. 6). Last week they found some more, to the west of the first and near the Weddell...
...Capt. Riiser-Larsen's radio continued...
Friends of seals, friends of penguins were incensed last week at a despatch from Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, commander of Norway's current Antarctic expedition (TIME, Sept. 9). Steaming at tortoise pace on his little ship Norvegia along the rim of Antarctica, Capt. Riiser-Larsen found time and thought hanging heavily. What if his coal should run out? thought he. Forthwith he busied himself with "a little experiment which I think will be of interest to our friends back in civilization...
...from his base at Deception Island to visit Admiral Byrd at Little America. On the far side of the continent, Sir Douglas Mawson's men were able to make only a brief flight from their ship, the Discovery. In the same general neighborhood the Norwegian whale-spotters, Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen and Lützow Holm, did not fly far from the Norvegia...
...worked around the continent the past two winters: 1) Byrd Antarctic Expedition at the Ross Sea; 2) Wilkins-Hearst Expedition (Sir George Hubert Wilkins) at the Weddell Sea; 3) British- Australian-New Zealand and Antarctic Expedition (Sir Douglas Mawson's) at the Indian Ocean side; 4) Norwegian Whalers (Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen's and Lutzow Holm...