The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to SpitzbergenH.S. King, 1873 - 355 páginas |
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... 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 Navy has taken a leading share in these , it is to be hoped it will ...
... 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 Navy has taken a leading share in these , it is to be hoped it will ...
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... pole . His stay was an unusually prolonged one , his return to England not occurring till 1833. His brother , James Clark Ross , made extensive sledge journeys , in the course of which he traced portions of King William's Island ...
... pole . His stay was an unusually prolonged one , his return to England not occurring till 1833. His brother , James Clark Ross , made extensive sledge journeys , in the course of which he traced portions of King William's Island ...
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... follow Grinnell Land to the Pole . Having disposed of the discoveries north of the American continent , those made to the north of 4 1 INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER . 23 Siberia , chiefly by ships passing 22 A VOYAGE TO SPITZBERGEN .
... follow Grinnell Land to the Pole . Having disposed of the discoveries north of the American continent , those made to the north of 4 1 INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER . 23 Siberia , chiefly by ships passing 22 A VOYAGE TO SPITZBERGEN .
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... Pole , but was stopped by ice at 80 ° 28 ′ N. Cap- tains Phipps and Lutwidge , with Horatio Nelson among their crew , renewed the attempt in 1773. Ice only was visible from the summit of a mountain on one of the Seven Islands . They ...
... Pole , but was stopped by ice at 80 ° 28 ′ N. Cap- tains Phipps and Lutwidge , with Horatio Nelson among their crew , renewed the attempt in 1773. Ice only was visible from the summit of a mountain on one of the Seven Islands . They ...
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... Pole by means of reindeer and sledges . In the summer of 1872 Captain Altmann found the sea east of Spitz- bergen free from ice , and saw eight islands occupying the position assigned by Petermann to King Charles's Land . The south end ...
... Pole by means of reindeer and sledges . In the summer of 1872 Captain Altmann found the sea east of Spitz- bergen free from ice , and saw eight islands occupying the position assigned by Petermann to King Charles's Land . The south end ...
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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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