Northwest History. Alaska. Science. United States.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1934
• Subjects: Alaska; Tourists; Visitors; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th Century; Arctic; Bering Sea; North Pole; Pacific; ice pack; Nome; Skagway; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/102010

Polar Trip To Tourists POLAR TRIP TO TOURISTS N. P. Booking- Passages for Unique Arctic Cruise. The Alaska Steamship company is inaugurating a new northern trip |this summer in which ships- will cruise within almost "two whoops and [a holler" of the north pole. August 8, the S. S. Victoria, a transatlantic liner of the Cunard line bought for the run, will leave Seattle on a 23-day cruise and follow up the. ccavt oh the inland passage, cruise along the Aleutian islands that mark the most western tip of Alaska to Unalaska, and proceed to Nome and from thence into Bering sea and as far north as the ship can go until it is turned back by the ice pack. It will mark the most northern point a tourist vessel has ever cruised. S. F. Fitzpatrick, Northern Pacific passenger agent, has just returned from a trip to Skagway on the Victoria to familiarize himself with the ship and be able to offer advice to travelers seeking bookings. Mr. Fitzpatrick was assured in Seattle that Alaskan travel promised to be. the heaviest in the history of coast cruises. Bookings are being made already.