Edward H. "Iceberg" Smith was a United States Coast Guard admiral, oceanographer, and Arctic explorer. Oceanography (from the greek words Ωκεανός meaning Ocean and γράφω meaning to write also called oceanology or He received a Ph. D. in oceanography from Harvard, and commanded the Marion and the Northland. Design Northland was built at Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Corporation, Newport News Virginia, launched 5 February 1927 and commissioned Most famously, he commanded the Northeast Greenland Patrol, and led Coast Guard efforts to defend Greenland against the Germans in World War II. Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat meaning "Land of the Greenlanders" Grønland is a self-governing Danish Province located between the
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- John A. Tilley, "The Coast Guard & the Greenland Patrol," http://www.uscg.mil/history/h_greenld.html
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