The International Polar Expedition was sponsored by the U.S. Signal Corps and the Smithsonian Institution to establish a permanent station for meteorological, magnetic, tidal, and pendulum observation ...
On Alaska’s uppermost tip, Point Barrow, Captain George Hubert Wilkins, blackbearded Australian soldier of fortune, searcher by air for an undiscovered continent, warmed up the Wright Whirlwind motor ...
The journal Arctic is North America’s premier journal of northern research. Now in its seventh decade of continuous publication, Arctic is a peer-reviewed, primary research journal that publishes the ...