Word: greenland
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Baldwin began his lecture by describing the conditions in the Arctic Sea. There exist vast ice-packs that move slowly along the course of least resistance. The obstruction of Greenland and America on one side and of Asia and the northern archipelago on the other keep the ice in the Arctic Sea. Much of it piles up on the shores in great packs; the rest is forced by the southern winds from Alaska in a narrow path across the polar regions. A cache set adrift at Point Barrow on the Alaskan coast by Captain Melville of the Jeannette, was picked...
...lecture, which will be illustrated by stereopticon views, will be open only to members of the Union. Mr. Baldwin will explain his new plan for reaching the North Pole by starting from the Behring Sea and drifting with the current across the open water around the Pole into the Greenland...
...Baldwin has already made several attempts to reach the North Pole. He served as meteorologist in the North Greenland expedition of Commodore Peary in 1893-94, and in the Wellmann polar expedition five years later. He established four depots of supplies from the south to the north coast of Franz-Josef Land as basis for a proposed dash for the Pole and three safety stations on the northeast coast for use on the return march. He was the first leader selected to head the Ziegler polar expedition...
...clock. He will outline, for the first time, his new theory for reaching the North Pole, which he hopes to employ in his next Arctic expedition. Vast ice-floes, starting from Behring Sea, have floated across the comparatively open water around the North Pole, into the region near Greenland. Mr. Baldwin intends to establish a camp of portable houses, with an adequate supply of fuel and provisions, on one of these ice floes and to drift with it, and in this way, he expects to reach the North Pole...
...Baldwin is an experienced explorer, having accompanied Commodore Peary in his North Greenland expedition in the year 1893-94. In 1897, he travelled to Spitzbergen to join Andree's balloon expedition, but arrived a few days late. A year later he went with the Wellmann expedition to Franz-Josef Land as second-in-command. He was the first leader selected to head the Ziegler polar expedition in 1901-02. Mr. Baldwin has written several books on the results of his explorations...