The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to SpitzbergenH.S. King, 1873 - 355 páginas |
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... Difficulties in Narrow Waters - The Wounded Sea Bird - Nature most Desolate - Deer Stalking - The Drive • CHAPTER VIII . Russian Memorials - Long Years of Waiting - Landing in Pursuit of Game - White Whale - Netting Large Game CHAPTER ...
... Difficulties in Narrow Waters - The Wounded Sea Bird - Nature most Desolate - Deer Stalking - The Drive • CHAPTER VIII . Russian Memorials - Long Years of Waiting - Landing in Pursuit of Game - White Whale - Netting Large Game CHAPTER ...
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... Difficulties in Narrow Waters - The Wounded Sea Bird - Nature most Desolate - Deer Stalking - The Drive . CHAPTER VIII . Russian Memorials - Long Years of Waiting - Landing in Pursuit of Game - White Whale - Netting Large Game CHAPTER ...
... Difficulties in Narrow Waters - The Wounded Sea Bird - Nature most Desolate - Deer Stalking - The Drive . CHAPTER VIII . Russian Memorials - Long Years of Waiting - Landing in Pursuit of Game - White Whale - Netting Large Game CHAPTER ...
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... difficulties there ; and that ships which have gone by this route have not been able to advance so far north as by the others . Similar objections may be made to the Baffin Bay and Smith Sound route as compared with that by Spitz ...
... difficulties there ; and that ships which have gone by this route have not been able to advance so far north as by the others . Similar objections may be made to the Baffin Bay and Smith Sound route as compared with that by Spitz ...
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... difficulty in communicating with the mother country . No ship has ever harboured through the winter farther north than 78 ° 38 ′ N. , and only one has reached beyond 80 ° . The most northerly point reached is 81 ° 35 " . There is a ...
... difficulty in communicating with the mother country . No ship has ever harboured through the winter farther north than 78 ° 38 ′ N. , and only one has reached beyond 80 ° . The most northerly point reached is 81 ° 35 " . There is a ...
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... difficulty or danger , much less to direct us in the course we should pursue when in doubt . These old whaling captains alone possess the requisite knowledge at the present time , and men of science have but little opportunity of ...
... difficulty or danger , much less to direct us in the course we should pursue when in doubt . These old whaling captains alone possess the requisite knowledge at the present time , and men of science have but little opportunity of ...
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amongst animals Arctic circle Arctic seas Barentsz bear Beerenberg boat Cape Captain coast cold crew Crown 8vo curious danger deer depth difficulty direction distance drift east escape expedition explored fathoms feet fiord floating floe flora force gale Greenland Gulf Stream harpoon herd hope Humboldt Glacier hummock icebergs Iceland INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER journey Kennedy Channel Lancaster Sound land latitude look masses miles Miocene Moffen Island mountain narwhal North Somerset northern Norwegian Nova Zembla object observed once open sea open water ourselves pack Parry party Polar Pole present pursuit reached regions reindeer rocks round sail sailors Samoyedes schooner seal season seems seen ship shore shot side sight sledges Smith Sound snow soon southward Spitzbergen sport steamer Strait stream surface temperature thick tion vessel voyage Waigatz walrus warm water weather whale wind winter
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