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Page 123
... Camp II at the end of that road and at the base of a 600 - foot cliff . Then the weasel snow vehicles began the tedious task of hauling up the supplies , 1,500 pounds to a load ( page 124 ) . Temperatures soon rose above freezing . Mud ...
... Camp II at the end of that road and at the base of a 600 - foot cliff . Then the weasel snow vehicles began the tedious task of hauling up the supplies , 1,500 pounds to a load ( page 124 ) . Temperatures soon rose above freezing . Mud ...
Page 130
... Camp 70 ° Camp VL Arctic Circle о Baffin Island 65 ° Godthaab Seismic soundings -- Gravity measurements Geodetic survey Geologic survey Points supplied by air ↑ Scientific Surveys Traced These Trails on the Icecap Seismologists made ...
... Camp 70 ° Camp VL Arctic Circle о Baffin Island 65 ° Godthaab Seismic soundings -- Gravity measurements Geodetic survey Geologic survey Points supplied by air ↑ Scientific Surveys Traced These Trails on the Icecap Seismologists made ...
Page 134
... Camp V and finally Camp VI , at an altitude of about 5,200 feet , some 55 miles from Camp III at the edge of the icecap . Now at last we were safe from the thaw . From here on , toward the east , stretched a white flat desert of snow ...
... Camp V and finally Camp VI , at an altitude of about 5,200 feet , some 55 miles from Camp III at the edge of the icecap . Now at last we were safe from the thaw . From here on , toward the east , stretched a white flat desert of snow ...
Contents
Airplanes New Industry and Military Defense Speed Progress | v |
In These Telltale and Often Beautiful Relics of Vanished | xviii |
Athens to Istanbul A Journey Through the Heart of the | 37 |
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