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...North Pole there is no land, so anv expedition there must camp on ice. Last May the Russians, self-elected mon-nrchs of the Arctic, landed planes at the Xorth Pole, established a camp to conduct scientific investigation and communicate hv radio with airplanes making transpolar flights to the U. S. The scientists discovered that the air around the Pole was not constantly at high barometric pressure, but, on the contrary, at constantly low pressure. Another surprise was a swarm of crabs, jellyfish and red crayfish, brought up in a net from a depth of 3,000 feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Four Men & a Dog | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

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