Word: amundsen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Norway, because of the Pole-discovering expedition of the late great Roald Amundsen (1911) and the establishment of whaling posts, would have a potent voice at any diplomatic gathering to discuss South Polar sovereignty...
Lost & Found. The old steamer Fort St. James which the late Roald Amundsen used in the Arctic, is a Hudson Bay Company post in Cambridge Bay, Victoria Island. To its frozen remoteness eight bearded, twitching men tottered. Their leader, Col. C. D. H. McAlpine, only after being warmed and fed, explained that they were the Canadian exploring party who were lost with their two seaplanes two months ago in a snowstorm over Queen Maud Sea. Out of fuel, they alighted on the water and dragged their planes to shore. They did not know that they were only 40 miles from...
...South Magnetic Pole. In 1911-14 he led the Australasian Antarctic expedition. Last week he was at Capetown, South Africa, ready to depart with the Discovery, stout wooden ship used by the late Sir Robert Scott, who reached the South Pole (January 1912) one month after the late Roald Amundsen did. Sir Douglas does not intend to visit Commander Byrd. His aim is to explore the Antarctic coast south of Australia and prepossess it for his dominion. Formal and hurried pre occupation is important, for it would vest in Australia rights to fisheries and miner als which later...
...animal oils. With whale oil in direct competition and a lower tariff on it threatened, U. S. fine-oil men heard that sailing for the Antarctic on Norway's first seaplane-equipped whaling boats were Pilots Riisar-Larsen and Leutzowe Holm, seasoned polar flyers for the late Explorer Roald Amundsen. Experiment off Alaska has proven the feasibility of spotting whales from the air at long range, resulting in tremendous kills, big cargoes of whale oil, cheap prices for competition with other oils...
...would serve to study the Arctic's floor. Some geologists believe that the waters rest in a huge basin, others that they hug the outside of a basin upside down. No one knows. Explorer Wilkins found a depth of 17,000 feet (3½ miles) off Point Barrow. Amundsen found 15,000 feet off Spitsbergen. Peary dropped a 3,000-ft. rope at the Pole and could not touch bottom...