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Several thousand square miles of unknown territory in the Yukon were mapped and explored by the National Geographic Expedition last spring, according to H. Bradford Washburn, Jr. '33, leader of the expedition. Washburn lectured at the Geographical Institute last night...
Until last February, when Washburn arrived in the east of the Mt. St. Elias range, no one had ever seen this vast expanse of snow-covered mountains. His work progressed by both airplane and sledge party. For 84 days, from February to June, the expedition was on the glacier or mapping the mountains from...
...When we took our first flight over this territory," Washburn said, "we found no less than four new glaciers of considerable size, and nineteen peaks over 10,000 feet high. Then we also found out that the Canadian-Alaskan boundary is over five miles...
Educated at Washburn College and the University of California Medical School, Bowman served as First Lieutenant and Captain in the Medical Corps during the War. He is now working on the problem of curing insanity by the adjustment of hormones...
...Bradford Washburn, Jr., '29, will give a public lecture on "Exploring Yukon's Glacial Stronghold" at the Institute of Geographical Exploration this evening at 8 o'clock. The lecture will be illustrated with motion pictures and slides taken on his expedition last summer...