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Page 457
... base at Ikateq , almost cut off from the world . Here a handful of men had to get along with one another for 12 to 14 long months in a spectacular but lonely land . They took pride in their job , sending out vital weather reports to ...
... base at Ikateq , almost cut off from the world . Here a handful of men had to get along with one another for 12 to 14 long months in a spectacular but lonely land . They took pride in their job , sending out vital weather reports to ...
Page 488
... base . Summers Short but Days Are Long Greenland summers are brief , but days are so long that everything that grows burgeons swiftly . Grass is thick on the lowlands , even far above the Arctic Circle . Birch shrubs push out dense and ...
... base . Summers Short but Days Are Long Greenland summers are brief , but days are so long that everything that grows burgeons swiftly . Grass is thick on the lowlands , even far above the Arctic Circle . Birch shrubs push out dense and ...
Page 497
... base and forwarded . Building Strapped to Rocks Wooden buildings at outposts were strapped to the rock with cables so that winds wouldn't blow them , or snows push them , into the sea . Apart from his daily shift of weather or radio ...
... base and forwarded . Building Strapped to Rocks Wooden buildings at outposts were strapped to the rock with cables so that winds wouldn't blow them , or snows push them , into the sea . Apart from his daily shift of weather or radio ...
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Across Tibet from India to China By Lt Col Ilia Tolstoy AUS | 169 |
Ali Goes to the Clinic By Herndon and Mary Hudson 764 | 357 |
Americans Stand Guard in Greenland By Andrew H Brown | 457 |
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