Word: archipelago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus, according to Rudyard Kipling, sang the great sleek Callorhinus alascanus, the fur seal, of his summer home in the Bering Sea, the barren volcanic islands of the Pribilof Archipelago. To these islands each May the males come first, from their winter haunts in the north Pacific-huge, scarred 600-lb. bulls, full-coated three-year-old "bachelors." By the time the females arrive from the south with their pups, weeks later, the bulls have battled themselves ragged and bloody fighting for places to set up their harems on the rocky ledges of the rookery. Each bull takes some...
This week the British War Office announced that a combined force of British, Canadians and Free Norwegians had invaded the Norwegian archipelago of Spitsbergen, "without enemy interference." Spitsbergen, 750 miles from the North Pole, has a little coal*, which the British decided to keep out of Nazi hands. The expedition, which was under Canadian command, gave restless Canadians their first warlike mission in over a year. The ships which carried the expedition also brought about 1,000 of Spitsbergen's Norwegians back to Britain, the men to serve in Free Norway's forces and merchant marine...
...possibilities, Admiral Sadler told what the Navy is doing to extend its Pacific defenses: four bases for patrol seaplanes, also usable for Navy light craft. Farthest flung will be Ecuador's Galapagos Islands, astride the Equator, 1,000 miles from the Big Ditch. There, in a twelve-island archipelago fantastically storied as a haven for pirates and more modern escapists, Navy airmen will set up patrol bases, scan the Pacific to south, west and north. Another base will be set up 550 miles north of the Galapagos, on deserted Cocos Island, a favorite picnic stop of President Roosevelt...
Florence Horn is a small, sapient Connecticut Yankee quietly outraged by the U. S. citizen who places Manila in Cuba. Late in 1939 she took her journalistic acumen and a social conscience to the little-known Commonwealth of the Philippines, within three months turned the polyglot, 7,091-isle archipelago inside out gathering research for a FORTUNE article. Orphans of the Pacific is the byproduct...
...archipelago's uneasy stepmother, "We hesitated about taking them in the first place; for forty years we showed singularly little pride in possessing them; we finally demonstrated our determination to be finished with them. We don't really want them today, but also we don't want to upset the status quo in the Far East, and strengthen Japan's hand. So we may never be 'quit of them...