The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to SpitzbergenH.S. King, 1873 - 355 páginas |
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... Difficulties in Narrow Waters - The Wounded Sea Bird - Nature most Desolate - Deer Stalking - The Drive CHAPTER VIII . Russian Memorials - Long Years of Waiting - Landing in Pursuit of Game - White Whale - Netting Large Game CHAPTER IX ...
... Difficulties in Narrow Waters - The Wounded Sea Bird - Nature most Desolate - Deer Stalking - The Drive CHAPTER VIII . Russian Memorials - Long Years of Waiting - Landing in Pursuit of Game - White Whale - Netting Large Game CHAPTER IX ...
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... difficulties there ; and that ships which have gone by this route have not been able to advance so far north as by the others . Similar objections may be made to the Baffin Bay and Smith Sound route as compared with that by Spitz ...
... difficulties there ; and that ships which have gone by this route have not been able to advance so far north as by the others . Similar objections may be made to the Baffin Bay and Smith Sound route as compared with that by Spitz ...
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... difficulty in communicating with the mother country . No ship has ever harboured through the winter farther north than 78 ° 38 ′ N. , and only one has reached beyond 80 ° . The most northerly point reached is 81 ° 35 " . There is a ...
... difficulty in communicating with the mother country . No ship has ever harboured through the winter farther north than 78 ° 38 ′ N. , and only one has reached beyond 80 ° . The most northerly point reached is 81 ° 35 " . There is a ...
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... difficulty or danger , much less to direct us in the course we should pursue when in doubt . These old whaling captains alone possess the requisite knowledge at the present time , and men of science have but little opportunity of ...
... difficulty or danger , much less to direct us in the course we should pursue when in doubt . These old whaling captains alone possess the requisite knowledge at the present time , and men of science have but little opportunity of ...
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... difficulties to contend with in this voyage , of no small degree . Frozen for three weeks in the pack that surrounded them , they drifted south as far as Iceland , but at length the ice gave way , and they were once more set free . The ...
... difficulties to contend with in this voyage , of no small degree . Frozen for three weeks in the pack that surrounded them , they drifted south as far as Iceland , but at length the ice gave way , and they were once more set free . The ...
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amongst animals Arctic seas Barentsz bear boat Cape Captain coast cold crew curious danger deer depth difficulty direction distance drift east edge eider ducks escape expedition explored fathoms feet fiord floating floe flora forced gale Greenland Gulf Stream harpoon herd hole hope Humboldt Glacier hummock icebergs Iceland INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER journey June Kennedy Channel killed Lancaster Sound land latitude look mass miles Miocene Moffen Island mountain narwhal northern Norwegian Nova Zembla object observed once open sea open water ourselves pack party Polar Pole present pursuit reach region reindeer rocks round sail sailors Samoyedes SCALLOWAY CASTLE schooner seal season seems seen ship shore shot side sight sledges Smith Sound snow soon southward Spitzbergen sport Strait stream surface temperature thick tion vessel Waigatz walrus warm water watch weather Willem Barentsz wind winter