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Amundsen's five companions in daring-Lincoln Ellsworth of Manhattan, and Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, Leif Dietrichsen and Mechanics Omdahl and Feucht-were also aboard the collier, together with members of the Norwegian Aero Club's relief expedition. When the ship reached the Skagerrak narrows north of Denmark, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: In the North | 7/6/1925 | See Source »

MacMillan's party also heard from Secretary Wilbur of the U. S. Navy. The latter telegraphed to Commander R. E. Byrd of the Navy unit which is cooperating with the explorer, but not under his command, that, unless the three seaplanes taken were equipped with a regulation Navy aero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: In the North | 7/6/1925 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 6, 1925 | 7/6/1925 | See Source »

The Arctic Circle kept its secret a fourth week. With Explorer Roald Amundsen of Norway, and his air pilot, Lincoln Ellsworth of Manhattan, still missing somewhere up towards the Pole (TIME, June 1 et seq.) the Norwegian steamer Ingcrtrc, sent to rescue them, dropped anchor in a Spitzbergen fjord. A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: In the Arctic | 6/22/1925 | See Source »

The MacMillan expedition, commissioned by the National Geographic Society, is equipped, as Amundsen was not, with radio instruments. The Loening amphibian seaplanes lent by the U. S. Navy are smaller than the cumbersome Durnier-Wahls taken by Amundsen, easier to handle in difficult landing and taking-off places. Their base...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: In the Arctic | 6/22/1925 | See Source »

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