North Star Bay

As a result, official permission for the Project Iceworm missile base was never obtained, and the project was abandoned due to a lack of practical applications.

Yet despite the American government's best efforts to keep the presence of nuclear weapons on Greenland under wraps, this secret was blown wide open on January the 1st, 1968, when a nuclear-armed B-52 Stratofortress flying a routine Chrome Dome mission caught fire and crashed into North Star Bay near Thule Air Base.

The conventional explosives in the four 1.1 megaton B28 thermonuclear bombs on board detonated on impact, contaminating large swaths of sea ice with vaporized plutonium, and triggering a major diplomatic crisis between the US and Denmark.

And to learn more about this highly consequential accident, please do check out our previous video, Fire, Ice, and Plutonium.

Murphy is the boatswain and Pritchard the boy, both from Newfoundland, and they look none the worse for wear, in spite of the long time they have spent here.

mr whitney is the gentleman who came up on the eric last year and at the last moment decided to spend the winter with the natives he had a long talk with the commander before we left for the north and has had quite a lengthy session with him since i learned that dr cooke came over from ellesmere land with his two boys etukashu and apella and in a confidential conversation with mr whitney made the statement that he had reached the north pole professor macmillan and i have talked to his two boys and have learned that there is no foundation in fact for such a statement and the captain and others of the expedition have questioned them and if they were out on the ice of the arctic ocean it was only for a very short distance not more than twenty or twenty-five miles the boys are positive in this statement and my own boys utah and uquia have talked to them also and get the same replies it is a fact that they had a very hard time and were reduced to low limits but they have not been any distance north and the commander and the rest of us are in the humour to regard mr whitney as a person who has been hoodwinked we know dr cooke very well and also his reputation and we know that he was never good for a hard day's work in fact he was not up to the average and he is no hand at all in making the most of his resources he probably has spun this yarn to mr whitney and the boatswain to make himself look big to them the commander will not permit mr whitney to bring any of the dr cooke effects aboard the roosevelt and they have been left in a cache on shore kulatingwa is here again after his trip to north star bay with dr cooke and tells an amusing story of his experience It is only from a sense of justice to Commander Peary and those who were with him that I have mentioned Dr. Cook.

The outfitting of the hunting expedition of Mr. Bradley was well known to us.

Captain Bartlett had directed it and had advised and arranged for the purchase of the schooner John R. Bradley to carry the hunting party to the region where big game of the character Mr. Bradley wished to hunt could be found.

The mail contained good news for all but one of us.

Mr. Borup, in his bunk above the professor's, read his letters, and in the course of his reading, was heard to emit a deep sigh, then to utter an agonizing groan.

professor macmillan thinking that borup had received bad news indeed endeavoured to console him and at the same time ask what was the bad news feeling sure it could be nothing less than the death of colonel borup or some other close relative of his what is the matter george tell me harvard beat yale The Roosevelt, accompanied by her consort, sailed south to North Star Bay, and while entering the harbor ran ashore.

Late in the afternoon, however, the rising tide floated her.

So 1,800 total on a 71-foot boat.

On a 71-foot boat, it escorts fuel tankers and cargo ships, aligns them with the pier, and moves icebergs out of the way as vessels enter North Star Bay.

It pulls the fuel lines from the ship to the pier to connect to a pipeline.

In September, it's hauled onto shore to prevent ice damage.