The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to SpitzbergenH.S. King, 1873 - 355 páginas |
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... round the northern part of Norway , and along a portion of the north coast of Russia . Soon after this an Icelandic fisherman , Gembiorn , got caught in a gale which drove him a long way to the west . The first land he sighted was Cape ...
... round the northern part of Norway , and along a portion of the north coast of Russia . Soon after this an Icelandic fisherman , Gembiorn , got caught in a gale which drove him a long way to the west . The first land he sighted was Cape ...
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... round the coast of the continent into James's Bay , where he wintered . On November 21 his crew mutinied , and he and a few others were turned adrift in a small boat . Nothing more was heard of them . In 1612 , Sir Thomas Button ...
... round the coast of the continent into James's Bay , where he wintered . On November 21 his crew mutinied , and he and a few others were turned adrift in a small boat . Nothing more was heard of them . In 1612 , Sir Thomas Button ...
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... round most of the island , the only part of the coast not explored being about one hundred and sixty miles along McClintock's Channel . In 1851 the attempt to cross Parry's Sound was renewed , but without success . A more northern route ...
... round most of the island , the only part of the coast not explored being about one hundred and sixty miles along McClintock's Channel . In 1851 the attempt to cross Parry's Sound was renewed , but without success . A more northern route ...
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... round Committee Bay 1851. From Bear Lake and on Arctic coast . 1851-2 . Attrabosca to St. Paul's , assisted by dogs for 450 miles 1854. From Repulse Bay to Castor and Pollux River . Miles . 1180 1200 • 1080 • 1730 1100 6290 Of this ...
... round Committee Bay 1851. From Bear Lake and on Arctic coast . 1851-2 . Attrabosca to St. Paul's , assisted by dogs for 450 miles 1854. From Repulse Bay to Castor and Pollux River . Miles . 1180 1200 • 1080 • 1730 1100 6290 Of this ...
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... round the sun in an elliptic orbit , so that it is at one time nearer the sun than at another . At the present time the Poles are farther from the sun in summer and winter than in spring and autumn . It has already been indicated that ...
... round the sun in an elliptic orbit , so that it is at one time nearer the sun than at another . At the present time the Poles are farther from the sun in summer and winter than in spring and autumn . It has already been indicated that ...
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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