Our country and its resources; . h-west Passage to Asia also led into the Antic as. for example, Davissvoyage up Baffin Bay. Then the(piest for the North Pole engagedexpeditions for many years; andfinally, not a few parties werespecially equipped to seek for factsabout polar phenomena. Thus manypolar lands have been discovered,depths of the polar seas have beenascertained in wide areas, the Arcticnatives have been studied and theart of living and traveling in thefrigid /.ones has been far Investigation of the position of the north and south magnetic polesappears to show that they
Our country and its resources; . h-west Passage to Asia also led into the Antic as. for example, Davissvoyage up Baffin Bay. Then the(piest for the North Pole engagedexpeditions for many years; andfinally, not a few parties werespecially equipped to seek for factsabout polar phenomena. Thus manypolar lands have been discovered,depths of the polar seas have beenascertained in wide areas, the Arcticnatives have been studied and theart of living and traveling in thefrigid /.ones has been far Investigation of the position of the north and south magnetic polesappears to show that they are notlixed points but move in areas ofconsiderable extent. The attainmentof the geographical North Pole wasmade by Peary on April 6. 1909;and of the South Pole by Amund-sen on December 14. 1911. and byScott on January Is. 1912. The most notable discovery inmany years is the fact that a highcontinent surrounds the Smith area of the land surface is ap-proximately 5,460,000 square nearly one and a half times the. Copyright l>y Harris A Owing REAR ADMIRAL PEARY. DISCOVERER0E THE NORTH POLE size of Europe. It is computed thatIts mean height is 6,500 feet, ornearlj seven times the mean eleva-tion of Europe. The greal world sea has been sowell explored that probably few isl-ands have escaped attention except, it may be, in the polar areas
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