While a Norwegian sealer was visiting White Island off Spitzbergen last month and discovering the 33-year-lost remains of Explorer Salomon August Andrée & comrades (TIME, Sept. 1), an airplane full of Canadians flew northeast from Copper Mine in the Northwest Territories to King William Island on an expedition to chart arctic coastlines for the Canadian Government. At King William Island, Major L. T. Burwash, leader of the party, set out on foot with his two companions. They had not walked far when they stumbled upon something which looked like a graveyard. Digging away...
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