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...think it is an interesting fact that now when polar exploration is over for the present, the public has become interested in the subject," said Vilhjalmur Stefansson '06 in an interview recently. Mr. Stefansson, who is one of the best-known of the explorers of the Arctic region, is at present collaborating with Dr. A. H. Rice '01, professor of Geographical Exploration, and donor of the new Geography School, in giving the course in Geographical Exploration at the School...
...exploration may be the cause of the new interest shown by the public," Mr. Stefansson continued, but in my opinion the submarine is the ideal conveyance for arctic exploration. The main points in favor of the submarine over other modes of transportation are its large radius for exploration, its unlimited leisure, and the fact that if can carry a large staff of scientists and a complete scientific laboratory." Mr. Stefansson stressed the fact that the submarine is no more dangerous as a means of arctic exploration than the airplane although entirely different problems must be dealt with. "The difficulties...
Marked in red on a map of Alaska in the Alaskan Airways office at Fairbanks is a 200-mi. square in the extreme northeast section of the Territory along the Canadian border and the coast of the Arctic Ocean. Somewhere in that wilderness plods a herd of 2,400 reindeer, all that remain of a herd of 3,500. With seven Lapp herders they are on their way from the Seward Peninsula to east of the Mackenzie River in northern Canada. They set out two years ago when Lomen Reindeer Corp. contracted to deliver the herd to the Canadian Government...
...aviation companies in Alaska but Alaskan Airways (pioneered by the late Carl Ben Eielson) is now also operating monthly passenger & express service between Anchorage and Bristol Bay (southern coast), weekly beI tween Anchorage and Bethel (southwest), weekly between Fairbanks and Nome, monthly between Fairbanks and Wiseman (above the Arctic Circle), weekly between Fairbanks, Fort Yukon & Dawson (Yukon). Compared to domestic U. S. airways, Alaskan fares are high ($200 between Fairbanks & Nome). But they are much cheaper than the only other means of winter travel-dogteam. The Fair-banks-Nome flight takes from 4½ to 6 hr. By dogteam...
...motorcycle policeman of Westchester County, N. Y. was surprised last week to behold an elderly gentleman kneeling in a path through some woods near Scarsdale peering skywards through binoculars. The gentleman explained that he was P. L. Hudson of Brooklyn, ornithologist; that that bird up yonder was an arctic owl in full winter plumage; that winter would come soon...