The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-07-29

I'D ciety. Washington. d. CO.
ID ~ REENLAND replaces Spi
IS. Y bergen in the public's int
re ~ est since the summer expl,
m alton OF the North Polar
Of gions is being conducted from tn
re bleak continental island. The Ma
MILAN expedition under the auspic
Of the National Geographic society n
n only has its chief base In Greenlan
ID at the far northern Eskimo village
s Etah. but the navy planes which al
n accompanying the party will fly owe
s. and map large areas Of the interic
Z of the island. and in addition Studio
will be made on. the ground Of Greer
lands old Morse ruins
D Greenland is an interesting regior
o In itself apart from the scientific &C
: dvities being conducted there this
! summer. 1t is the largest island in
; the world Qf Australia be classed as
: a continent). has the land reaching
closest to the North pole, is the coun-
try harboring the northernmost civil
liked community. and is the one land
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age are now dominant.
Mercator Of map fame has unwit-
dngly confused the mind of the world
In regard TO Greenland. Because the
sphere is fiattened out on many maps
as though its surface were stretched
Greenland. vast as it is. is made to ap-
pear many times larger. 1t is as
though the island were reflected in one
OF the mirrors set up at country fairs
to make the thin appear fat.
But viewed properly, the great north
ern island bulks large enough to COM
mand respect II its northernmost
point were placed at the Canadian bor- |
der in North Dakota, its southernmost |
point would reach to the mouth of the |
Rio Grande, the southern extremity of
Texas Its greatest width is approxi
mately equal to the distance from New
York TO Chicago.
But though the island Is almost con-
tinental in size having an area of
ABOUT $4,000 square miles, it has only
lo'ooo inhabitants. the daily popula-
uon OF single huge office building in
lower New York city. The reason for
this sparse population is not alone the
lar northern position of the country.
Tor the lower half of the island is in /.
approximately the same latitude as the
scandinavian peninsula with its $780, !,
Nv souls. But while Scandinavia IL !.
athed by the warm Gulf stream. and =
celand, too. is benefited by It. Green
and lies far from its influence and is q,
'ashed only by icy Arctic currents. u
Buried Under Snow and Ice. =
Exposed to the full effects of the
'osts OF the Arctic, the great island ~,
Mich at one time In geologic history n
40 the climate and verdure of Cali IN
rnia. has been changed into frozen or
'ser. Inc once green country has
zen buried under a sheet of snow and 10,
Greenland's mountains are "fcv, as :.
missionary song has 1t. Ali noun HI,
ms that are high enough are lev 70
en- under the Equator. But the SONG A.
ssed the real point: Greenland,s tro
lieys are icy-flled solidly full of III
, In fact. II Is doubtful II any, s,,,
ere else in the world such fro
nnous Ice sheet exists as In Green
o. Inc SHOWS Of perhaps a dozen Ian
more millenniums have built nm q To-,
s'al blanket that In places Is sir ooo
seven thousand feet thick. II has e.
led valleys. hills and mountains vi
'e, making central Greenland into -
nge snow and Ice plateau, single Are,
nendous glacier with countless fen. .,
es that extend down into the coas, L.
Us. ever feeding icebergs to the torn
IN. 'SiH
MY a narrow fringe along n nart n,
evo,, ,t.,. - iio'n 'he Ice cap, cred
IA - a'u 10 frozen IN WIN for
mo covered with snow. II is along drr,,
of rho co.. a'.o" ice-lree Sec tably
rs,,tr '"e ie" thou- Unit
bsRimos and the handful NJ W..
y that make up the population NJ -
inland find y precautions Iivel,bood
ring tba ~. 'ious nveiihood. claim
a, C,roo.,,., GUNNER the inte- then
fonnd r..,r.,- y pnehomena tende
iound nowhere else In the world set,Io
,nIv fon, arc inaccessible lnhab
700 tho. ,,r, "eheId The The
wines n tba 80. mere "nen the unimI
'orne,. nib. "reat lakes the G.
blue crvs,aI -, now be- ate, is
toucbina ' 'neir waters only a
/ untI tbev al oI fragment nivik.
cbasm IN ,ho ,aa p'unee down northe
the GONZALEZ '"ciers push while
NO ice int ~ "o'u'' some dis tlemer
TO 100 feet dar 'ne rate west p
ses and ucha. site OF
d sl,ruhs snr,ra .. &c" now and in
MINER aIon. ,h. euuuen NE IN ruins c
coast. but few vegetables ercen, IN. II