They Lived on the North Pole
N May, 1937, 35 Russians were flown in five aeroplanes from Moscow to the Pole, via Franz Josef Land, with some 10% tons of supplies. The whole party remained there for some days. Then the ’planes all flew back to Moscow-but four men and a dog remained on the ice, living in tents. They were on
mn icée-low measuring about a mile and a-half by one mileand it was drifting at about four miles a day in the direction of Greenland. The four men were kept busily at work taking observations of all kinds. In fact, they were so busy that they could only allow themselves five hours sleep a day. So day after day, week after week, they drifted southward. Then in the darkness,
with 35 degrees of frost, a terrific blizzard broke on them, and with a roar like thunder the floe cracked and split. Their floating home was for a time cut down to an island barely 200 yards square. At last they sighted Greenland. And on February 16 an aeroplane from an ice-breaker located the little camp. On the 19th the ice-breakers themselves forced theit
way to the floe-now only 50 yards ‘by 30, and alf were soon safe on board. In nine months they had drifted 1500 miles-(Winter Course Talk: "Lifting the Veil: Wings Over the Pole," by L, B. Quartermain, 2YA, June 23.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 108, 18 July 1941, Page 5
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