Word: spitsbergen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attempt to reach the North Pole under water; in Framingham, Mass. Wilkins learned his first lessons in cryogeography on an Arctic expedition with Vilhjalmur Stefansson, who taught him "to work like a dog and then eat the dog." Sir Hubert's 1928 flight from Point Barrow, Alaska, to Spitsbergen-made with Carl Ben Eielson-was the first airplane : ight from North America over the top of the globe to the European area; and the trip under the edge of the Arctic icecap in 1931 was cool enough to chill spines in 1958. A converted U.S. Navy sub, Wilkins...
About 36 hours later Nautilus came out from under the ice pack, surfaced between Greenland and Spitsbergen right where it expected to be, broke radio silence for the first time since leaving Hawaii to send off a three-word encrypted signal to the Navy that said something like: "Here we are!" Thirteen miles off Iceland a helicopter arrived out of nowhere, lifted Anderson off for a preplanned hop to Iceland's Keflavik Airfield, where a Navy plane was waiting to fly him to Washington. The helicopter lowered the crew's first outside-world tribute direct from the President...
...Woman in the Polar Night, by Christiane Ritter (Button; $3), is the story of another intrepid woman and her adventures in a colder climate than Arizona. Frau Ritter lived for a year on the north coast of Spitsbergen in a hut ten feet square, with her husband and a young Norwegian hunter, in temperatures that sank to 40° below zero. To the north lay Anxiety Bay, to the south Distress Hook, to the east Misery Bay and to the west the Bay of Grief. Not a tree or shrub rose from the sea of stones that covered the desolate...