Word: antarctica
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some epic work. They show you clearly what an exploration party is like: men dealing minutely with a great isolation, making laborious preparations against hypothetical crises, living every day so as to come a step nearer an illusory goal. Pushing past the Ross Barrier (wall of ice guarding Antarctica) to and over the Queen Maude Mountains, Byrd and his men moved to the Pole step by step, laying out emergency bases, foreseeing, taking precautions. Byrd might have taken a chance and made a dash for the Pole by plane the day he got to Little America, but explorers need...
Wilkins. Another glad runaway from Antarctica last week was Sir George Hubert Wilkins. He and Pilot S. A. Cheesman made a few observation flights in the neighborhood of Deception Island this season. As they approached Montevideo, Uruguay, aboard the Norwegian steamer Henrik Ibsen last week, they loosed a small seaplane and flew 125 miles to shore, to thorough baths, to city clothes and square meals...
Friends of seals, friends of penguins were incensed last week at a despatch from Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, commander of Norway's current Antarctic expedition (TIME, Sept. 9). Steaming at tortoise pace on his little ship Norvegia along the rim of Antarctica, Capt. Riiser-Larsen found time and thought hanging heavily. What if his coal should run out? thought he. Forthwith he busied himself with "a little experiment which I think will be of interest to our friends back in civilization...
...this has been an unusual ice year around Antarctica. As far from the Ross Sea as the Weddell Sea, bad ice and turbulent weather have prevented Sir George Hubert Wilkins from making any extensive airplane explorations. All he could do was make three brief flights this year, and those from a ship. He had hoped that he could fly from his base at Deception Island to visit Admiral Byrd at Little America. On the far side of the continent, Sir Douglas Mawson's men were able to make only a brief flight from their ship, the Discovery. In the same...
Despite the strenuous seekings of all these men, despite all the peerings of two centuries of exploring, Antarctica remains almost totally unknown. It has an area half as great again as that of the U. S. Ages ago it had a mild climate, indicated by fossilized marine and land life. Apparently never connected with the other continents, it was never inhabited by humans. Its chief denizens nowadays are whales, seals, penguins, petrels. There are no south polar bears...