Winter in the Arctic Regions and Summer in the Antarctic RegionsSociety for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1872 - 368 páginas |
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... Victoria Straits , now called Franklin Straits , discovered M'Clintock Channel , and proved Prince of Wales's Land to be an island . He was prevented from crossing M'Clintock Channel by the heavy nature of the ice , and his health ...
... Victoria Straits , now called Franklin Straits , discovered M'Clintock Channel , and proved Prince of Wales's Land to be an island . He was prevented from crossing M'Clintock Channel by the heavy nature of the ice , and his health ...
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... Victoria Straits , and to complete the search to the northward upon Prince of Wales's Land , and the unknown land of North Somerset . When M'Clintock returned to the ship he found Young still absent , and notwithstanding his very severe ...
... Victoria Straits , and to complete the search to the northward upon Prince of Wales's Land , and the unknown land of North Somerset . When M'Clintock returned to the ship he found Young still absent , and notwithstanding his very severe ...
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... Land was named by Dr. Kane Victoria and Albert Mountains . The highest point attained by Dr. Hayes is named Cape Lieber , and a remarkable peak rising above it Church's Monument , while the bay that lies below it is named after Lady ...
... Land was named by Dr. Kane Victoria and Albert Mountains . The highest point attained by Dr. Hayes is named Cape Lieber , and a remarkable peak rising above it Church's Monument , while the bay that lies below it is named after Lady ...
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... Victoria Land , and has been approached by the same navi- gator within 160 miles . ( See Map . ) On approaching either of these points , the needle must obviously vary greatly from the meridian , and change its direction very rapidly ...
... Victoria Land , and has been approached by the same navi- gator within 160 miles . ( See Map . ) On approaching either of these points , the needle must obviously vary greatly from the meridian , and change its direction very rapidly ...
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... Victoria Land and Balleny Islands . This entailed the necessity of recrossing the pack two hundred miles broad , which had already been passed through near the Antarctic Circle ; but it was hoped that the pack might have been driven so ...
... Victoria Land and Balleny Islands . This entailed the necessity of recrossing the pack two hundred miles broad , which had already been passed through near the Antarctic Circle ; but it was hoped that the pack might have been driven so ...
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Antarctic Antarctic Circle appeared arctic regions Baffin's Bay barrier became Behring's Strait bergs boat brig Cape Captain Penny Captain Ross Channel cliffs cloth boards coast cold command continued Cook crew D'Urville dark deck discovered discovery distance dogs drift Erebus Esquimaux expedition explored feet floe formed Franklin frozen gale Greenland harbour Hudson's Bay Company hummocks icebergs Island James Clark Ross journey Lancaster Sound land latitude M'Clintock magnetic pole masses Melville Island miles mountains named navigators nearly night north-west passage northward open Polar Sea open sea open water pack Parry party passed Petersen pieces Polar Sea provisions reached rock sailed seal seen ships shore side Sir James Ross Sir John sledges Sound southern southward Spitzbergen summer surface temperature Terror thick versts vessels Victoria Land voyage walrus weather Wellington Channel westward whale wind winter
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Página 336 - ... expedition, yet it restored to England the honour of the discovery of the southernmost known land which had been nobly won, and for more than twenty years possessed, by Russia. Continuing our course towards this land for many hours, we seemed scarcely to approach it. It rose in lofty...
Página 4 - ... to sail to all parts, countries, and seas of the east, of the west, and of the north...
Página 290 - Ninety-seven ice hills were distinctly seen within the field, besides those on the outside; many of them very large, and looking like a ridge of mountains, rising one above another till they were lost in the clouds.
Página 47 - Greenwich, in the latitude of 74° 44' 20"; by which His Majesty's ships under my orders became entitled to the sum of five thousand pounds, being the reward offered by the King's order in council, grounded on a late Act of Parliament, to such of his Majesty's subjects as might succeed in penetrating thus far to the westward within the Arctic Circle.
Página 290 - The sheaves also were frozen so fast in the blocks, that it required our utmost efforts to get a topsail down and up ; the cold so intense as hardly to be endured ; the whole sea, in a manner covered with ice ; a hard gale, and a thick fog.
Página 93 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters, these see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Página 361 - ... and the maintack hauled on board sharp aback — an expedient that perhaps had never before been resorted to by seamen in such weather : but it had the desired effect ; the ship gathered stern-way, plunging her stern into the sea, washing away the gig and quarter boats, and with her lower yard-arms scraping the rugged face of the berg, we in a few minutes reached its western termination, the
Página 222 - I came upon a human skeleton, partly exposed, with here and there a few fragments of clothing appearing through the snow. The...
Página 181 - Relation' of Maldonado to be both of veracity and authenticity,' we are by no means inclined to suppose that such a voyage as it describes is impracticable. We firmly believe, on the contrary, that a navigable passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific round the northern coast of America does .exist, and may be of no difficult execution. Why, then, it may be asked, have all the attempts made at different times, from both sides the continent of America, failed ? Because not one of them was ever made...
Página 17 - Persevering in difficulty, unappalled by danger, and patient under distress, they scarcely ever use the language of complaint, much less that of despair ; and sometimes, when all human hope seems at its lowest ebb, they furnish the most beautiful examples of that firm reliance on a merciful and superintending providence, which is the only rational source of true fortitude in man.