Word: straits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Itinerary. Sailing out of Wiscasset, Me., nosing up through Davis Strait and Baffin Bay to a boat-base at Etah, Greenland, MacMillan will explore the ice-gap of Northern Greenland, examining and mapping the interior from the air as it has never been possible to do afoot; and from an air-base on the upper tip of Axel Heiberg Land will fly westward in search of the dubious Crocker Land...
...hours examining the Pole and its vicinity. He thought it might be possible to establish a fuel and food base at the Pole for further aerial exploration. From Kings Bay to the Pole is only a seven-hour flight. From the Pole south to Wrangel Island and Bering Strait is about 1,500 miles...
...prize is donated by P. W. Thayer '14, of the Singapore Strait Settlements, who attracted considerable attention last year by establishing a Harvard Club of Singapore of which he was the President, executive committee and sole member. He has given the prize annually to be awarded for the best piece of writing in either verse or prose...
Specifically, Russia did not like the fact that the U. S. Coast Guard cutter Bear had taken magnetic observations in her territorial waters. It was also brought to his attention that upon a rock on Chukotsk Peninsula, in Emma Bay, Cape Pusino, Bering Strait, had been found a brass plate with the inscription "United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Magnetic Station. For information write Superintendent, Washington. For disturbing this mark, $250 fine or imprisonment...
...Ales Hrdlicka, of the National Museum at Washington, read a paper arguing that human beings first came to this continent about 10,000 years ago across Bering Strait. He asserted that they were of yellow-brown races, and believes that the first to come were ancestors of the Mayas, Toltecs and early Peruvian tribes, these being followed in turn by Aztecs, Shoshone-Algonquins, and Atabascans...