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...Koch's expedition, operating from the sturdy little baseship Gustav Holm, anchored just under the 80th parallel, has been exploring northern Greenland by air for two years. Two nights on the same day last week brought the total distance covered up to more than 25,000 mi. without one mishap. The other flight was westward, over the Northeast Foreland lip to Peary Land. It discovered that a mountain range beginning at a deepcut mouth, Denmark Fjord, runs out on the lip. Skimming over vast desolate plains lying between this range and the great inland mountain chain. Dr. Koch concluded...
...cast anchor half a mile offshore. Making a raft out of heavy planking and four lifeboats, they labored all one night at the ticklish task of hoisting from the hold delicate wings and fuselages and towing them in on the raft. The Hobby, Amundsen's 1925 baseship chartered this year by Byrd, put in an appearance and was at once set to work plowing a lane through the jagged ice from the Chantier to the beach...
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