Sir John Franklin and the Arctic Regions: With Detailed Notices of the Expeditions in Search of the Missing Vessals Under Sir John FranklinGeo. H. Derby and Company, 1852 - 396 páginas |
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... reaching India by a nearer route than doubling the Cape of Good Hope , but though they failed in that respect , the fortitude , perseverance , and skill which they manifested , exhibited the most irrefragable proofs of the early ...
... reaching India by a nearer route than doubling the Cape of Good Hope , but though they failed in that respect , the fortitude , perseverance , and skill which they manifested , exhibited the most irrefragable proofs of the early ...
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... reaching the North Pole , with a view to the ascertainment of philosophical questions . It was planned and placed under the command of Sir Edward Parry , and here first the elucidation of phenomena connected with this imaginary axis of ...
... reaching the North Pole , with a view to the ascertainment of philosophical questions . It was planned and placed under the command of Sir Edward Parry , and here first the elucidation of phenomena connected with this imaginary axis of ...
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... reached the continent of Amer- ica , yet they had not ascertained the line of coast , nor the separation or vicinity of the two continents of Asia and America . " Coxe , certainly , does no more than justice to his illustrious ...
... reached the continent of Amer- ica , yet they had not ascertained the line of coast , nor the separation or vicinity of the two continents of Asia and America . " Coxe , certainly , does no more than justice to his illustrious ...
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... reached Waygatt Sound , beyond Disco Island , where they found forty - five whalers detained by the ice . Waygatt Island , from observations taken on shore , was found to be 5 ° longi- tude and 30 miles of latitude from the situation as ...
... reached Waygatt Sound , beyond Disco Island , where they found forty - five whalers detained by the ice . Waygatt Island , from observations taken on shore , was found to be 5 ° longi- tude and 30 miles of latitude from the situation as ...
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... reached the Alexander , and were immediately attacked by the boats of that ship , and killed . One , which was shot through the head , unfor- tunately sank ; the other , on being wounded , attacked the boats , and showed considerable ...
... reached the Alexander , and were immediately attacked by the boats of that ship , and killed . One , which was shot through the head , unfor- tunately sank ; the other , on being wounded , attacked the boats , and showed considerable ...
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Admiralty Arctic arrived attempt August Back Baffin's Bay Barrow's Strait Beechey Behring's Strait boats Boothia Cape Walker Capt Captain Parry Captain Sir coast Commander Coppermine Coppermine River course crew deer direction discovery dispatched drift eastward endeavor England Enterprise Erebus and Terror Esquimaux examine expedition exploring feet floes frozen Fury gale harbor Hecla hope Hudson's Bay Hudson's Bay Company Indians journey July June Lady Franklin Lake Lancaster Sound land latitude Lieut Lieutenant Mackenzie River Melville Island miles named navigation North Somerset northern northward northwest passage officers pack Parry's party passage passed Plover Polar Sea proceeded provisions quarters reached Regent Inlet Repulse Bay Rescue Richardson Ross's sailed seamen season sent ships shore Sir James Ross Sir John Franklin Sir John Ross sledges snow southward Spitzbergen tion vessels Victoria Land voyage Wellington Channel westward whalers wind winter