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Word: southmost (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1931-1931
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Reports on the Lindberghs became rare and perfunctory as they left Alaska and headed out over the Bering Sea to Siberia. Radio messages stated that they had paused at their fuel cache on Karagin Island off the Kamchatka Peninsula, then flown down to Petropavlovsk near the southmost tip of the peninsula. Next they would traverse the storm-ridden Kurile Islands to Tokyo where elaborate greetings awaited them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Flights of the Week, Aug. 24, 1931 | 8/24/1931 | See Source »

...Labrador, Greenland and Spitsbergen to Peiping, a course that would take them only 850 mi. from the North Pole. Or they might fly west across northern U. S. or Canada (where water stops are plentiful) to Seattle. British Columbia or Alaska, thence to bear along the Aleutian Islands, the southmost tip of Kamchatka, Siberia and across the stepping stones of the Kurile Islands to Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Lindberghiana | 6/15/1931 | See Source »

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