The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to SpitzbergenH.S. King, 1873 - 355 páginas |
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... escape to the southern seas to be melted , whereas , on the other side , much ice is arrested by land . The warm flow from the Atlantic also has an influence in lessening the formation and accumulation of ice within the Arctic circle ...
... escape to the southern seas to be melted , whereas , on the other side , much ice is arrested by land . The warm flow from the Atlantic also has an influence in lessening the formation and accumulation of ice within the Arctic circle ...
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... secures a crew , while the awful experiences of those who have escaped from former hazardous expeditions at this season of the year , seem to have little or no effect upon the men themselves or their ready listeners . Only.
... secures a crew , while the awful experiences of those who have escaped from former hazardous expeditions at this season of the year , seem to have little or no effect upon the men themselves or their ready listeners . Only.
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... escaped with their lives , only too glad to leave their own vessels to the mercy of the ice , and the savage onslaughts of the storms of the Arctic seas . On Monday , the 13th of May , the warps are ready , a steam - tug has taken a ...
... escaped with their lives , only too glad to leave their own vessels to the mercy of the ice , and the savage onslaughts of the storms of the Arctic seas . On Monday , the 13th of May , the warps are ready , a steam - tug has taken a ...
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... escaped being drowned . These enormous masses of ice often rolled over as we gazed upon them , owing to the water , being warmer below , causing the ice to thaw more rapidly , when the upper part , which is heavier , totters , the ice ...
... escaped being drowned . These enormous masses of ice often rolled over as we gazed upon them , owing to the water , being warmer below , causing the ice to thaw more rapidly , when the upper part , which is heavier , totters , the ice ...
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... greater damage ; as it was , they managed to escape with only a ducking in the icy sea , owing to the ready assistance of their more for- RALPH THE ROVER . 65 tunate companions , who by 64 A VOYAGE TO SPITZBERGEN . WHALE ·
... greater damage ; as it was , they managed to escape with only a ducking in the icy sea , owing to the ready assistance of their more for- RALPH THE ROVER . 65 tunate companions , who by 64 A VOYAGE TO SPITZBERGEN . WHALE ·
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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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