Arctic Controversy: the 1925 Byrdr‐MacMillan Expedition Example
1972; University of Toronto Press; Volume: 53; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.3138/chr-053-01-03
ISSN1710-1093
Autores Tópico(s)Arctic and Russian Policy Studies
ResumoTHE VESSELS MOVED CAUTIOUSLY NORTH THAT SUMMER through the iceladen waters of Davis Strait and Baffin Bay challenging not only the severe Arctic conditions but Canadian jurisdiction over the northern archipelago as well. To at least one Canadian official, the expedition represented a 'spirit ... of ruthJess disregard for other people's rights and interests. '• Rather than the giant tanker J//anhattan and her escorts bound through the Northwest Passage for the oil-rich north slope of Alaska, the shJps were the 2oo-ton steamship Peary and the accompanying schooner Bowdoin, whose immediate goal was the harbor of Etah, in northwestern Greenland. They carried not the modern sonar, radar, and helicopters to scout the passage to Prudhoe Bay, but three open-cockpit, amphibian biplanes to search for new land in the Arctic Ocean and the latest short-wave radio
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