The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to SpitzbergenH.S. King, 1873 - 355 páginas |
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... Temperature Table - Diary Extracts -Star- Fish - End of Observations CHAPTER VI . Spitzbergen - The Gateway to the Polynia - Moffen Island- Walrus - Sea Devils - Moffen Island - New Dangers - Forma- tion of Ice Floes CHAPTER VII ...
... Temperature Table - Diary Extracts -Star- Fish - End of Observations CHAPTER VI . Spitzbergen - The Gateway to the Polynia - Moffen Island- Walrus - Sea Devils - Moffen Island - New Dangers - Forma- tion of Ice Floes CHAPTER VII ...
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... temperature , so that probably the range of temperature in the circumpolar area is greater than in any other part of the globe . Evidences of high sum- mer temperature are not entirely wanting . Many of the most northern coasts reached ...
... temperature , so that probably the range of temperature in the circumpolar area is greater than in any other part of the globe . Evidences of high sum- mer temperature are not entirely wanting . Many of the most northern coasts reached ...
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... temperature of the Southern hemisphere is lower than that of the North ; and it is a matter of obser- vation that the Antarctic Pole is more extensively ice - clad than the Arctic . This may be in part con- jecturally explained by the ...
... temperature of the Southern hemisphere is lower than that of the North ; and it is a matter of obser- vation that the Antarctic Pole is more extensively ice - clad than the Arctic . This may be in part con- jecturally explained by the ...
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... temperature . If the northern summer oc- curred when the earth was nearest the sun , the cir- cumpolar area , it is believed , would be heated more strongly than it is now . The intensity of the heat might be still further increased by ...
... temperature . If the northern summer oc- curred when the earth was nearest the sun , the cir- cumpolar area , it is believed , would be heated more strongly than it is now . The intensity of the heat might be still further increased by ...
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... temperature between the zone of greatest cold and the tropic of the northern hemi- sphere , would seem an adequate and probable cause for the generation of magnetic currents and storms . The auroras are observed to occur in cycles of ...
... temperature between the zone of greatest cold and the tropic of the northern hemi- sphere , would seem an adequate and probable cause for the generation of magnetic currents and storms . The auroras are observed to occur in cycles of ...
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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