The Greatest Show in the Arctic: The American Exploration of Franz Josef Land, 1898–1905, by P.J. Capelotti
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Abstract
REVIEWS • 351 among them became more prevalent; Moneta describes a serious tiff, which lasted for days, about some bars of soap.Summer arrived, heralded by lots of birds and temperatures above freezing.But in late December (Antarctic summer), they were still cut off by pack ice.There were anxious discussions about pickup and the inevitable scenarios for staying another winter with low coal supplies.Since their personal gear had been packed for some time, they thoroughly cleaned, repaired, and painted all their buildings ready for the new crew.This annual routine was one of the reasons that the buildings had stood up so well over the years.January 1924 gave way to February, with all sorts of false alarms as people spotted new black specks in the pack ice.There were the inevitable bets on the date of pickup.Then a whale catcher appeared, and they rowed out to it when it was close enough.On it was a group of five wearing winter clothing: their replacements, with one year's mail and news.Again, there was only one Argentine.Moneta's group sailed away, calling in on a huge Norwegian whale factory ship near Signy Island, under British customs control.Moneta was already thinking about coming back the next year, with a radio link.Ten months later, in January 1925, he did return.The radio did not work, but they used the generator to provide electric light in the main hut.He summarizes this year, in which there seems to have been more tension between the expedition members.He returned to Buenos Aires thinking about returning with another radio and a crew of Argentines.He spent eight months there, recruiting six people rather than the usual five in order to include a radio operator.After an official send-off in 1926, they sailed to South Georgia, where they trans-shipped to a modern whale catcher for the South Orkneys.En route, they met up again with huge factory ships, operated by various nationalities under British customs control.They reached the base on Laurie Island two months earlier than usual to allow time for proper construction of the radio station before winter set in.As a result, in 1927, Moneta became the leader of the first all-Argentine crew, triggering national interest in the expedition.They worked furiously to build two new rooms and erect the radio mast.They had trouble starting the radio and learning the basics of operating it.When they got through, they received a message from the President of Argentina, who was most complimentary, and they started transmitting weather data for the first time.During the following winter, on their national day, there was a special live exchange via a radio station in Buenos Aires with officials and members of their families.This was a very emotional, nationalistic occasion that captured the imagination of Argentines listening in.The radio link had not only taken away the old isolation, it had attuned the nation to the existence of an Argentine Antarctic expedition.This was a year in which Moneta was very much in charge.He made a film of their life, which proved very popular and further fueled interest in Antarctica across Argentina.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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