The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to SpitzbergenH.S. King, 1873 - 355 páginas |
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... tion of Ice Floes CHAPTER VII . 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 ...
... tion of Ice Floes CHAPTER VII . 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 ...
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... tion of Ice Floes CHAPTER VII . 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 ...
... tion of Ice Floes CHAPTER VII . 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 ...
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... tion , the characteristic feature of which is the attempt to reach the Pole , combined more or less with a spirit of scientific inquiry , promises to be a more glorious one than either of the two preceding phases ; and since the English ...
... tion , the characteristic feature of which is the attempt to reach the Pole , combined more or less with a spirit of scientific inquiry , promises to be a more glorious one than either of the two preceding phases ; and since the English ...
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... tion , Captain Back , supported by public subscription , was sent in search of it . He wintered in 1833 on Great Slave Lake , and in 1834 descended the Back River to its mouth , and explored the coast from Cape Britannia to Point ...
... tion , Captain Back , supported by public subscription , was sent in search of it . He wintered in 1833 on Great Slave Lake , and in 1834 descended the Back River to its mouth , and explored the coast from Cape Britannia to Point ...
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... tion of conditions . The present eccentricity of the earth's orbit is slight compared to what it has been in past times . At present the earth is 3,000,000 miles less than the mean distance nearer the sun in aphelion than in perihelion ...
... tion of conditions . The present eccentricity of the earth's orbit is slight compared to what it has been in past times . At present the earth is 3,000,000 miles less than the mean distance nearer the sun in aphelion than in perihelion ...
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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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