Word: antarctica
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...most dramatic episodes of man's exploration of his planet is shaping up this week in the hostile white heart of Antarctica. The British Commonwealth land expedition, led by 49-year-old Scientist-Explorer Vivian Ernest Fuchs, is battling toward the air-supplied U.S. base at the South Pole, and will probably get there in a few more days. Geologist Fuchs, lean veteran of 30 years of scientific exploration in Greenland, Africa and Antarctica, has announced that he intends to press on, in spite of the threat of worsening weather, and hopes to reach Scott Station on the Ross...
...twelve-man Fuchs expedition is doing much more than here-to-there exploring. It is a well-equipped group of scientists who are making the first careful, detailed study of the interior of Antarctica. Starting from Shackleton Base on the Weddell Sea, south of South America, on Nov. 24, it headed for South Ice, an advance base 250 miles inland that was established by Fuchs during the Antarctic spring (Oct.-Nov.). This is fearfully difficult country, with two high, parallel mountain ranges, the Theron Range and the Shackleton Range, looming blackly above the snow. The ice between them is torn...
With his train of Weasels and Sno-Cats (special snow vehicles with spiked tracks), Fuchs had heavy going. The weather was warm for Antarctica, and the snow-bridges over the crevasses were weaker than when he pioneered the route to South Ice. Nine times his vehicles broke through the roofs of vast caves in the ice and had to be hauled out. Once a Sno-Cat was brought to the surface by fixing in the ice beneath it long sections of aluminum bridging to form an incline up which it could be drawn. Other troubles were heavy snowfalls and many...
Depot 700. Tall (6 ft. 3 in.), methodical Sir Edmund trained for his trip as he trained for Mt. Everest. He and his men started with the snowfields of the New Zealand Alps, then moved to Antarctica, where for nearly a year they tested themselves and their tractors in the worst possible weather. Last Oct. 14 he set out from the Ross Sea base, led a supply train with four tractors up the Skelton Glacier to the ice-covered tableland on the far side of Antarctica's main mountain range. When he had established Depot 700 (700 miles from...
...floating islands may be slightly further off, but there will be ample chance for dispute here as there has been with claims in the past. Occupation of a territory has usually been the prerequisite to sovereignty over it, and the claim situation on Luna will probably follow that of Antarctica, where there is no colonization but many contested claims...