The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to SpitzbergenH.S. King, 1873 - 355 páginas |
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... AND WIDDIE BAY 252 SKETCH IN RED BAY • 256 KING'S BAY . 259 PARTING WITH NORDENSKIOLD PRINCE CHARLES'S FORELAND 326 331 WATERSPOut . • 350 SOME OF THE FOSSIL LEAVES WE FOUND IN SPITZBERGEN 352 H T THE GATE - WAY TO THE POLYNIA :
... AND WIDDIE BAY 252 SKETCH IN RED BAY • 256 KING'S BAY . 259 PARTING WITH NORDENSKIOLD PRINCE CHARLES'S FORELAND 326 331 WATERSPOut . • 350 SOME OF THE FOSSIL LEAVES WE FOUND IN SPITZBERGEN 352 H T THE GATE - WAY TO THE POLYNIA :
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... leaves . The great bulk of the strata on and around Disco Island are of Miocene age . Plants have been collected from three distinct horizons represent- ing periods separated by considerable intervals of time . The lowest horizon occurs ...
... leaves . The great bulk of the strata on and around Disco Island are of Miocene age . Plants have been collected from three distinct horizons represent- ing periods separated by considerable intervals of time . The lowest horizon occurs ...
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... leave there only the more Arctic forms of vegetation unchanged in habits or features , the rest being , as it were , driven into the sea . But the effect on the American conti- nent would be to bring the Scandinavian flora into ...
... leave there only the more Arctic forms of vegetation unchanged in habits or features , the rest being , as it were , driven into the sea . But the effect on the American conti- nent would be to bring the Scandinavian flora into ...
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... leaving the more leisurely and time - absorbing scientific explorations to future expeditions . There are three ways into the Arctic Ocean , viz . , through Behring Strait , through Baffin Bay , and through the Spitzbergen Gap . The ...
... leaving the more leisurely and time - absorbing scientific explorations to future expeditions . There are three ways into the Arctic Ocean , viz . , through Behring Strait , through Baffin Bay , and through the Spitzbergen Gap . The ...
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... leave off gazing on a ship about to sail round Spitzbergen . The schooner and such attractions as Hull has to offer to a stranger so distracted our attention we hardly noticed the time slipping by . The 11th of May came at last , with a ...
... leave off gazing on a ship about to sail round Spitzbergen . The schooner and such attractions as Hull has to offer to a stranger so distracted our attention we hardly noticed the time slipping by . The 11th of May came at last , with a ...
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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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