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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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