Word: spitsbergen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Majesty is first a soldier, second a yachtsman and third an antiquarian?nor are his claims to these distinctions boasts. His early passion for the Army persists in the rigid, austere discipline of the Italian Court. He has yachted from blazing Syria to arctic Spitsbergen. Finally his carefully amassed collection of ancient Italian coins is scarcely rivaled. In this character of antiquarian His Majesty came to bright, frenzied Naples last week...
...Alaska, the Australian-born soldier of fortune Captain George Hubert Wilkins, leading the expedition backed by citizens of Detroit, was in something of a hole but was summoning his final resources for a flight to see if land exists between Point Barrow and the Pole. In Spitsbergen, the young Virginian, Lieut.-Commander Richard E. Byrd U. S. N., backed by Vincent Astor, Edsel Ford, John D. Rockefeller Jr. and others, rested after an historic 1,600-mile round-trip flight to the Pole, and laid out his next course-to wing westward from an advance base on north Greenland...
...Alaska on a snow-covered field just outside of Fairbanks, with its railroad and clustered wooden buildings, two Fokker monoplanes were finally assembled last week. Captain George H. Wilkins, leader of the U. S. aero expedition which is to fly over the Polar blindspot to Spitsbergen (TIME, March 15, SCIENCE), called to his aides. They were Major Thomas G. Lanphier and Lieutenant Carl B. Eielson, the pilots, and A. M. ("Sandy") Smith. All was set for the first tests. But Captain Wilkins would not commence until the crowd of spectators-newspapermen, townsmen and women of Fairbanks-dispersed. He was afraid...
...Spitsbergen* was discovered by the Vikings in 1194 and, in the 17th Century, owing to a lucrative whale fishing, its sovereignty was disputed by Norway, the Netherlands, Britain. The next century saw the end of whaling with a consequent lack of political interest. During the latter part of the last century, however, the question of sovereignty was again raised by Norway, Russia and The Netherlands, this time owing to the discovery of coal; and when in 1905 whaling was revived, the question became still more important. The matter, however, was not settled until 1920 when the Supreme War Council...
...Spitsbergen, usually and incorrectly written Spitzbergen, is the main island of an Arctic archipelago off the coast of Greenland. The principal islands of this archipelago are: Spitsbergen, Prince Charles Foreland, Edge Island, Barents Island, King Karl's Island, Hope Island, Bear Island...