1913 : Intolerable Heat And Mosquitoes In The Arctic

Western Mail (Perth, WA : 1885-1954) (about)    <Friday 27 June 1913

ARCTIC HEAT.
It is not always cold in the
Arctic regions, as more than
one explorer has found. “July
was intolerably hot” (says
Stefansson in “Harper’s”). We
had no thermometer, but I
feel sure that many a day
the temperature must been
over 100 deg. in the sun,
and sometimes for weeks on
end there was not a cloud in
the sky. At mid-night the
sun was what we would call
about an hour high, so that
it beat down on us without
rest the twenty four hours
through. The hottest period
of the day was about eight
o’clock in the evening, and
the coolest perhaps four or
five in the morning. The
mosquitoes were so bad
that several of our dogs
went completely blind for
the time through the swel-
ling of their eyes.”

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