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Maine explorers test Antarctic gear in Allagash wilderness
Twenty rugged men trek Maine north woods to test cold weather equipment using Polar is sledges. Led by Robert Morrill and including Dr Francis Appleton in a remote Baxter State Forest area near Chamberlain Lake, they face six feet of snow and hundred mile trips from Millinocket to the Canadian border.
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Chamberlain Lake
Maine
North Woods
Antarctica
Robert Faylor
Arctic Institute of North America
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Millinocket
Baxter State Forest
Mount Katahdin l
Earland
Campbell