Arctic and Antarctic, Greenland

Publication Year: 1949.

Greenland. Paul-Émile Victor, leader of the Expédition Polaire Française, has been for many months recently in western Greenland, E. of Disko Island. With 34 companions, he has been continuing the program of research initiated in 1948 in meteorology, geodesy and geophysics. The expedition, equipped with surplus "weasels” for transport over snow, planned to make deep borings in the Ice Cap. During the war, as a captain in the U. S. Army Air Forces, M. Victor was well known to many A. A. C. members for his work in the field of Arctic rescue and survival.