1944 Shock News : Permafrost Melting “as far as the eye can see”

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1. Ivan says:

   November 29, 2012 at 7:23 am

   1880:
   “The Tundras or wastes along the border of the Arctic Ocean are of the dreariest description, covered with ice and snow in winter, and in summer metamorphosed into mosquito-haunted marshes.”
   http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/95042351

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2. Ivan says:

   November 29, 2012 at 7:42 am

   1891:
   “Partly in this region are the vast tundra, or great shaking, quivering bogs, which cover an immense area of the north of Siberia. They are estimated by some authorities as covering 1,000,000 square miles, but that is merely an estimate. The north of this tundra can never be anything else but a bog ; regarding the southern tundra the Russians differ. Some are of opinion that they are like the northern, and can never be anything else but desolate bogs; others think they can be drained, reclaimed, and turned into first class pasture land, or even used for crops.”
   http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/65531499

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3. Ivan says:

   November 29, 2012 at 7:58 am

   1896:
   “On the maps the tundra has a bad name. It is called the ” region of treeless swamp.” It is uninhabited ; and for eight months out of the twelve it is covered with snow.”
   “The tundra was, in fact, a moor, with here and there a large flat bog and abundant lakes.”
   http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/20444537

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4. Ivan says:

   November 29, 2012 at 8:06 am

   1899:
   “In winter the Tundra is, of course, one vast frozen sheet. In the brief summer it is swampy, steamier and swarming with mosquitoes”
   http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/52560339

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5. Ivan says:

   November 29, 2012 at 8:17 am

   1901:
   “To the north, the Tundra, stretching inland from the Arctic Sea, swampy and treeless, ranging from 150 to 400 miles in width.”
   http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/55672719

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6. Ivan says:

   November 29, 2012 at 8:20 am

   1902:
   “The “tundras” are vast areas of swamp and marsh lands hardened by frost and covered with snow in winter, but in the short summer teeming with vegetation and swarming with wild birds,”
   http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/68874793

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7. Ivan says:

   November 29, 2012 at 8:32 am

   1906:
   “Then comes the hot sun, and the low, wide tundras along the coast are turned into great fresh water lakes”
   http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/82681836

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8. Ivan says:

   November 29, 2012 at 9:06 am

   1907:
   “There is in the north the half-frozen Tundra.”
   http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/5052392

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9. Ivan says:

   November 29, 2012 at 9:10 am

   1908:
   “arriving just after the ice melts on the largest swamp in the world called the Tundra, extending over 2,000 miles east and west.”
   http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/12678897

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10. Ivan says:

    November 29, 2012 at 9:15 am

    1910:
    “Another danger that threatens them is that they may be delayed over-long on the way, so that summer overtakes them, in which case they will run grave risk of being engufed, together with their machines, in the thawing tundra.”
    http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/66386801

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