Word: tundras
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...Fairbanks operators were, however, in constant touch with Wilkins' overland party under Explorer "Sandy" Smith. The latter had been obliged to leave his comrades encamped some 140 miles south of Point Barrow on the Colville River, while he and an aide mushed across the tundra to the nearest settlement. He had run out of food for the dogs. Soon, the encamped ones flashed, the animals would have to be shot. Wilkins, second-in-command, Major Lanphier, left behind in Fairbanks, at once rushed repairs on the damaged Fokker Detroiter to send aid. Meantime he worried and worried about Wilkins...
...this continent, where her commander, Captain George Hubert Wilkins, wished to deposit supplies before asking her to carry him over the Arctic seas. About noon, Fairbanks reported a radio from Captain Wilkins saying he had sighted Point Barrow. That meant that the Alaskan was soaring over the great triangular tundra, about the size of Texas, north of the Endicott Mountains. This report was later denied by Major Lanphier, Wilkins' second-in-command, and not for three days was the Alaskan's safe landing at its destination definitely known...