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 ...

A line of pink lingers above the horizon, the April sun offering a welcome dose of brightness after the months-long polar ...

When James Judkins began pulling up his fishing nets out near Point Barrow this month, the weight of the catch pulled back at him. “Man, this is a really big fish,” Judkins thought. Then, he glimpsed ...

Mr. John Murdoch lectured before the Anthropological Society last night in the Peabody Museum, on the "Arts and Customs of the Point Barrow Eskimos." A few years ago Mr. Murdoch was a member of the ...

Eustatic rises of sea level between A.D. 265 and 500 and between A.D. 1000 and 1100 caused the formation of raised beaches. After the first rise, sea level dropped about 2 meters below the present ...