The Search for the North PoleR.R. Smith, 1947 - 376 páginas Account of arctic expeditions since the mid-nineteenth century, in the form of short biographies of their leaders; final volume in a series of three, earlier volumes being In quest of the western ocean, 1928, and The search for the Northwest Passage, 1934. |
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Isaac Israel Hayes | 58 |
Charles Francis Hall | 82 |
Adolphus Washington Greely | 148 |
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Términos y frases comunes
able Andrée Arctic exploration Baffin Bay balloon Beaumont boats Brainard cache Cagni cairn camp Cape Alexander Cape Bryant Cape Fligely Cape Sabine coast commander Conger course crew cross days later decided depot distance dogs drift Eskimos Etah expedition farther farthest north feet Fiord floe Franz Josef Land gave going Greely Greenland Grinnell Land Harbor Hayes headland Henson hoped hummocks ice-field ice-pack journey Kane Basin kayaks Kennedy Channel latitude lead leaving Lieutenant Littleton Island Lockwood Markham Marvin meat miles Nansen Nares Navy North Pole northern northward obliged open water party Peary Peary's Polar Sea provisions reach the Pole reached Cape Robeson Channel route Rudolf Island sail scurvy sent ship ship's shore sledges Smith Sound snow Spitzbergen started Strait supplies Thank God Harbor tion took turned vessel voyage weather wind winter