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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... open sea , and to follow Grinnell Land to the Pole . Having disposed of the discoveries north of the American continent , those made to the north of INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER . 23 Siberia , chiefly by ships passing 22 A VOYAGE TO SPITZBERGEN .
... open sea , and to follow Grinnell Land to the Pole . Having disposed of the discoveries north of the American continent , those made to the north of 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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