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Every opportunity was taken during the assignment as ice observer 

 on the scientific staff of the OraJ Zeppelin, to further the interests of 

 the International Ice Patrol as carried out by the United States 

 Coast Guard. The foremost authorities on Arctic ice and ocean- 

 ography were consulted, and such contacts have, and will, become 

 highly beneficial to both parties. It may be stated with all due 

 modesty that the Coast Guard is now looked upon as the authority 

 on icebergs and Arctic ice in the western North Atlantic region. 



The actual collection of a large amount of data by a stafl^ of scientists 

 flying on a dirigible in the Arctic the summer of 1931, proves the 

 feasibility of such a pioneering project. More explorations of a 

 similar nature, it is confidently stated, are now already under way. 

 The United States Coast Guard with its ice patrol researches is inter- 

 ested in such activities. A successful flight along the iceberg glacial 

 front of west Greenland (the source of the iceberg menace of the North 

 Atlantic), and a photogrametric study of the iceberg distribution there,, 

 are accomplishments now looked forward to with much hopefulness^ 



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