The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to SpitzbergenH.S. King, 1873 - 355 páginas |
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... Inquiry in the North - Spitzbergen Route - Navigation comparatively Easy - Smith Sound Advo- cates - The Lydiana - New Land Reconnoitred — Iceberg System - 301 APPENDIX 351 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . PAGE . RED BEACH , SPITZBERGEN.
... Inquiry in the North - Spitzbergen Route - Navigation comparatively Easy - Smith Sound Advo- cates - The Lydiana - New Land Reconnoitred — Iceberg System - 301 APPENDIX 351 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . PAGE . RED BEACH , SPITZBERGEN.
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... icebergs and ice - fields are loosened every summer , and sent drifting southward . These masses accumu- late most where there is most land , and by their melting they transfer the cold of higher latitudes to these more southern lands ...
... icebergs and ice - fields are loosened every summer , and sent drifting southward . These masses accumu- late most where there is most land , and by their melting they transfer the cold of higher latitudes to these more southern lands ...
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... icebergs in Kennedy Channel may be due either to a small development of land in the Polar sea , or , if there are lands , to the fact that they do not develop glaciers , which can only be formed in regions of perennial ice . The ...
... icebergs in Kennedy Channel may be due either to a small development of land in the Polar sea , or , if there are lands , to the fact that they do not develop glaciers , which can only be formed in regions of perennial ice . The ...
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... icebergs , and their delicate frames yielded only to the change of climate . We , on first leaving home , had no manner of interest in the crea- tures ; insensibly drawn to the very few survivors associated with a summer land , their ...
... icebergs , and their delicate frames yielded only to the change of climate . We , on first leaving home , had no manner of interest in the crea- tures ; insensibly drawn to the very few survivors associated with a summer land , their ...
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... iceberg . Gliding along the sea , just out of reach of the long tongues of ice , but still near enough to shoot the bask- ing seals . The small icebergs are often muddy and discoloured near the water's edge , and black blocks of ice are ...
... iceberg . Gliding along the sea , just out of reach of the long tongues of ice , but still near enough to shoot the bask- ing seals . The small icebergs are often muddy and discoloured near the water's edge , and black blocks of ice are ...
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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