The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to SpitzbergenH.S. King, 1873 - 355 páginas |
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... increased in number and size the farther the ship went . The ice between the large ice masses was two or three inches thick . An accident happened to the Sofia in 81 ° N. , which compelled her to return to an anchorage in King Bay in ...
... increased in number and size the farther the ship went . The ice between the large ice masses was two or three inches thick . An accident happened to the Sofia in 81 ° N. , which compelled her to return to an anchorage in King Bay in ...
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... increase until June 21 , when the sun's declination would be 23 ° 28 ′ . After this it would gradually sink . At a certain distance south of the North Pole the period of constant daylight would be five months , but the sun would attain ...
... increase until June 21 , when the sun's declination would be 23 ° 28 ′ . After this it would gradually sink . At a certain distance south of the North Pole the period of constant daylight would be five months , but the sun would attain ...
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... increasing height of the sun , which increase is in part counterbalanced by the INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER . 35 35 recession of the earth from 34 A VOYAGE TO SPITZBERGEN ,
... increasing height of the sun , which increase is in part counterbalanced by the INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER . 35 35 recession of the earth from 34 A VOYAGE TO SPITZBERGEN ,
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... increased by another modifica- tion of conditions . The present eccentricity of the earth's orbit is slight compared to what it has been in past times . At present the earth is 3,000,000 miles less than the mean distance nearer the sun ...
... increased by another modifica- tion of conditions . The present eccentricity of the earth's orbit is slight compared to what it has been in past times . At present the earth is 3,000,000 miles less than the mean distance nearer the sun ...
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... increase of that knowledge . There are indications of human beings or of human habitations in the most northern lands yet visited ; and probably they live or have lived in the undiscovered lands to the north . People live in 80 ° N. on ...
... increase of that knowledge . There are indications of human beings or of human habitations in the most northern lands yet visited ; and probably they live or have lived in the undiscovered lands to the north . People live in 80 ° N. on ...
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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