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...with this group. It was only last year that the team had reached a high enough position to collect together a third class team. He was made captain, but had to leave in the middle of the season, when he went with H. Bradford Washburn, Jr. '33, to the Yukon Territory on a mapping expedition, under the auspices of the National Geographic Society...
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...
...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...
Because of the almost insurmountable St. Elias Range which runs along the southern section of the Alaskan-Yukon border, the International Boundary Commission around 1900 was able to survey only from the Alaskan side. It was upon the uncharted Canadian side that Washburn did his work from February to June of this year...
...expedition of less than a dozen took the White Pass and Yukon Railroad up from Skagway to Carcross, 70 miles northeast. This bleak, one-hotel town served as base for the two airplanes by which the area to be mapped was completely photographed. Upon these photographs the overland sledge journey for the actual surveying was planned...