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Bache Peninsula

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Bache Peninsula , on E Ellesmere Island, in N Nunavut Territory, Canada. U.S. explorer Robert Peary proved this area to be a peninsula when he explored (1898) the region. From 1926 to 1933 the Royal Canadian Mounted Police had a post there, c.800 mi (1,290 km) from the North Pole, that was the northermost habitation in the world. Author not available, BACHE PENINSULA. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more

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	Editorial - Our Arctic, their desire ; IN 1926, the government of Canada set up a post office on Ellesmere Island's Bache Peninsula even though there were no people at all, except for the odd Mountie, within hundreds of kilometres. This was not, as one might... Read more
	Fishnet bandit ; ...those informative e-mails coming. We do enjoy expanding our Peninsula horizons. TUBE SOCKS -- Also in an apparel mode, the obituary...shorts and, yes, tube socks. LIGHTING UP -- Menlo Park's Ted Bache isn't happy about the continuing effort to limit places...is a certain irony in that bit of tobacco-related ... Read more
	STANDOFF THREATENS OPEC AGREEMENT / ON PRODUCTION CONTROLS ; ...a new one,'' said Ed Dellamonte, an analyst with Prudential-Bache Securities. West Texas Intermediate crude oil settled 33 cents...initiated a series of contacts with the leaders of other Arabian Peninsula nations in an attempt to ""find a way out'' of the stalemate... Read more
	Free For All ; ...feet under. I quote: "buried more than a thousand feet under the north coast of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, geologists have" etc. etc. - Kenneth Bache I Heard That Al Kamen was right in reporting that the Congressional Record doesn't always provide... Read more
	This return a total shock to planner; Feline finds his way home after 10 years.(News) ; ...Inglis received two voice mails from the animal shelter of the Peninsula Humane Society and SPCA in San Mateo, Calif., but he ignored...previous six years in Newport Beach, Calif., with Prudential Bache Securities Inc. of New York and with First California Capital... Read more
	Red Serge and Polar Bear Pants: The Biography of Harry Stallworthy, RCMP.(Book review) ; ...Moncton, or Ottawa he would regularly apply for transfer to more northerly stations. His time on Ellesmere Island at Bache Peninsula was noteworthy in that his post often constituted the most northern presence of the Canadian government in the archipelago... Read more
	BEWARE OF THE BEAR ; ...And by the end of 1991, "if we're still stuck in the Arabian Peninsula, we're looking at a further decline of 5 to 8 percent, or 16...Lawrence Eckenfelder, securities industry analyst with Prudential-Bache Securities in San Francisco. "We could see more involuntary... Read more

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