The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to SpitzbergenH.S. King, 1873 - 355 páginas |
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... escape to the southern seas to be melted , whereas , on the other side , much ice is arrested by land . The warm flow from the Atlantic also has an influence in lessening the formation and accumulation of ice within the Arctic circle ...
... escape to the southern seas to be melted , whereas , on the other side , much ice is arrested by land . The warm flow from the Atlantic also has an influence in lessening the formation and accumulation of ice within the Arctic circle ...
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... secures a crew , while the awful experiences of those who have escaped from former hazardous expeditions at this season of the year , seem to have little or no effect upon the men themselves or their ready listeners . Only.
... secures a crew , while the awful experiences of those who have escaped from former hazardous expeditions at this season of the year , seem to have little or no effect upon the men themselves or their ready listeners . Only.
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... escaped with their lives , only too glad to leave their own vessels to the mercy of the ice , and the savage onslaughts of the storms of the Arctic seas . On Monday , the 13th of May , the warps are ready , a steam - tug has taken a ...
... escaped with their lives , only too glad to leave their own vessels to the mercy of the ice , and the savage onslaughts of the storms of the Arctic seas . On Monday , the 13th of May , the warps are ready , a steam - tug has taken a ...
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... escaped being drowned . These enormous masses of ice often rolled over as we gazed upon them , owing to the water , being warmer below , causing the ice to thaw more rapidly , when the upper part , which is heavier , totters , the ice ...
... escaped being drowned . These enormous masses of ice often rolled over as we gazed upon them , owing to the water , being warmer below , causing the ice to thaw more rapidly , when the upper part , which is heavier , totters , the ice ...
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... suffered still greater damage ; as it was , they managed to escape with only a ducking in the icy sea , owing to the ready assistance of their more for- RALPH THE ROVER . $ 9 65 tunate companions ,. 64 A VOYAGE TO SPITZBERGEN .
... suffered still greater damage ; as it was , they managed to escape with only a ducking in the icy sea , owing to the ready assistance of their more for- RALPH THE ROVER . $ 9 65 tunate companions ,. 64 A VOYAGE TO SPITZBERGEN .
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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