The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to SpitzbergenH.S. King, 1873 - 355 páginas |
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... caused by ice nips . She sailed from the Shetlands , May 29 ; left Widde Bay on her return , August 17 , and reached Hull , September 26. In 1871 she reached 81 ° 15 ′ N. The above sketch shows that except at a few points we know very ...
... caused by ice nips . She sailed from the Shetlands , May 29 ; left Widde Bay on her return , August 17 , and reached Hull , September 26. In 1871 she reached 81 ° 15 ′ N. The above sketch shows that except at a few points we know very ...
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... same , would be proportion- ately increased . There is yet a third modifying cause which would tend to intensify the heat . The obli- quity of the ecliptic is now 23 ° 28 ′ ; but astronomers admit that it may have been at times as much D 2.
... same , would be proportion- ately increased . There is yet a third modifying cause which would tend to intensify the heat . The obli- quity of the ecliptic is now 23 ° 28 ′ ; but astronomers admit that it may have been at times as much D 2.
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... seem an adequate and probable cause for the generation of magnetic currents and storms . The auroras are observed to occur in cycles of varying • INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER . 41 intensity and frequency , lasting about 40 A VOYAGE TO SPITZBERGEN .
... seem an adequate and probable cause for the generation of magnetic currents and storms . The auroras are observed to occur in cycles of varying • INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER . 41 intensity and frequency , lasting about 40 A VOYAGE TO SPITZBERGEN .
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... causing the ice to thaw more rapidly , when the upper part , which is heavier , totters , the ice beneath is suddenly overbalanced , and the portion that was lately submerged is now suddenly tilted into the air through the disturbance ...
... causing the ice to thaw more rapidly , when the upper part , which is heavier , totters , the ice beneath is suddenly overbalanced , and the portion that was lately submerged is now suddenly tilted into the air through the disturbance ...
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... cause was not far to seek , for two hundred of the inhabitants , grown weary , perhaps , of the con- tinual privations they were forced to endure during the long winter , had resolved to emigrate , and the town was filled with their ...
... cause was not far to seek , for two hundred of the inhabitants , grown weary , perhaps , of the con- tinual privations they were forced to endure during the long winter , had resolved to emigrate , and the town was filled with their ...
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12 Paternoster Row 65 Cornhill amongst animals Arctic circle Author Barentsz bear boat Cape Captain coast crew Crown 8vo curious danger deer Demy 8vo difficulty direction distance drift east Edition expedition explored fathoms fiord floating floe flora gale Greenland Gulf Stream harpoon herd hope Humboldt Glacier hummock Iceland Illustrated INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER journey Lancaster Sound land latitude London look masses miles Miocene Moffen Island mountain narwhal northern Norwegian Nova Zembla observed once open water ourselves Parry party Polar Pole present Price published by Henry pursuit reached region reindeer rocks round sailed sailors Samoyedes SCALLOWAY CASTLE schooner scientific seal season seems seen ship shore shot side sight sledge Smith Sound snow southward Spitzbergen sport Strait surface temperature thick tion vessel vols Waigatz walrus WALTER BAGEHOT warm weather whale Willem Barentsz wind winter