Word: antarctica
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...violent wind that blows northward from the Adelie Coast of Antarctica has been a meteorological mystery since it was first studied by Sir Douglas Mawson in 1912. In winter it often blows for long periods at 90 m.p.h., and gusts may reach 200 m.p.h. While the wind is roaring on the Adelie Coast, the air may be almost calm in McMurdo Sound, just to the east...
...Antarctica: The Third World (Sun. 4. p.m., NBC). An on-the-spot documentary of the Antarctic expedition...
...Washington, D.C., intrepid Rear Admiral (ret.) Richard Evelyn Byrd, 66, who always reached his goal in his dashes to the North and South Poles, showed up at the local Columbia Broadcasting System offices and proclaimed his readiness to record an interview about "Operation Deepfreeze," his new Navy expedition to Antarctica, due to get under way next month. CBS welcomed him warmly, invited the admiral to cool his heels while it explored its program schedules. Half an hour later, it developed that the famed explorer had missed his bearings. Near by, the Mutual Broadcasting Co. was preparing to send...
...with trustworthy steadiness. Astronomers know better. Observed with their sharp-eyed instruments, the earth's rotation is a wobbly business. In Nature, Astronomer T. Gold of Britain's Royal Greenwich Observatory tells how he took the wobble apart and used it to show, among other things, how Antarctica may have got its deposits of coal...
...avoid serious clashes, Britain, Argentina and Chile signed an agreement in 1949 to refrain from sending warships south of the 60th parallel. Last month a Foreign Office spokesman in London issued a warning that Britain might be forced to disregard the three-nation pact if "incidents" kept occurring in Antarctica. The point was that the General San Martin's new base not only lay well within Britain's claimed slice of Antarctica but was near the announced starting point of a planned British-New Zealand attempt to make the first overland trek across the antarctic continent...