Word: antarctica
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Polar Power. In Adelie Land, Antarctica, a howling river of "wind, 50 miles wide, blows off the plateau, month in & month out, at an average velocity of 50 m.p.h. As a source of power this compares favorably with 6,000 tons of water falling every second over Niagara Falls. "I will not further anticipate some H. G. Wells of the future who will ring the antarctic with power-producing windmills; but the winds of the Antarctic have to be felt to be believed, and nothing is quite impossible to physicists and engineers," declared Professor Frank Debenham of Cambridge, president...
...time Admiral Byrd had spent a night at the White House and week-ended with his mother in Virginia over Mother's Day, many a moppet knew that he had brought back from Antarctica these things...
Only ostentation the Sulzbergers have permitted themselves is tucked safely away at the bottom of the earth. Explorers of Antarctica may follow the trail of grateful Admiral Byrd to Adolph Ochs Glacier, and from there survey the eminence of Mount Iphigene some 150 mi. from Arthur Sulzberger Bay. Even the four Sulzberger children, Marian, 16, Ruth Rachel, 14, Judith ("Judy"), 11, and Arthur ("Punch"), 9, were not forgotten. The first two letters of their names are immortalized in Mount Marujupu...
...cows and a 1,200-lb. Guernsey bull named Klondike Iceberg-first bull ever born in Little America; 15 emperor penguins, of which one was decidedly indisposed; the knowledge that seal meat looks like liver, but tastes different; indisputable proof that the common cold and other germs flourish in Antarctica; samples of unidentified bugs which live in snow and melted ice pools; the memory of four months alone in an ice hut, "lonely as hell," studying weather conditions, reading 85 books and letting his hair grow to shoulder-length...
...Conclusive evidence that coal and other minerals exist in Antarctica; that the entire Antarctic Ice Barrier is not afloat, as was commonly supposed, but is partly grounded; that the ice at the South Pole varies in thickness from two feet to two miles; that more meteors strike the earth's atmosphere than was formerly suspected; that the Edsel Ford Mountain Range may be a continuation of the great Andean Range; that a hitherto unknown area of 250,000 sq. mi. is part of the Pacific Ocean; that the inland fauna of Antarctica consists solely of skua gulls which live...