Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1913 — A Shallow Arctic Sea. [ARTICLE]

A Shallow Arctic Sea.

The United States Coast and Geodetip Survey has published an account of the tides of the Arctic Ocean, based upon the observations of Admiral Peary north of Greenland, and of Mikkelsen and J effing well at Flaxman Island, off the .coast of Alaska. Sufficient evidence has been gathered to suggest that a large area, covering bout 600,000 square miles and lying between Alaska and the Pole, is only slightly submerged. The way In which the tidal wave Is formed seems to oontradlct entirely the supposition that a deep and uninterrupted ocean separates Alaska from the Polar Bea.