The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to SpitzbergenH.S. King, 1873 - 355 páginas |
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... turned adrift in a small boat . Nothing more was heard of them . In 1612 , Sir Thomas Button , accompanied by Bylot and Prickett , explored portions of Southampton Island and Hudson's Bay , and wintered there without any material injury ...
... turned adrift in a small boat . Nothing more was heard of them . In 1612 , Sir Thomas Button , accompanied by Bylot and Prickett , explored portions of Southampton Island and Hudson's Bay , and wintered there without any material injury ...
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... turned south , through Crosier Channels , Barrow's Strait , Peel's Sound , and Franklin Channel , thus completing the discovery of the long - sought - for North - West voyage . The crew must have explored or seen portions of North ...
... turned south , through Crosier Channels , Barrow's Strait , Peel's Sound , and Franklin Channel , thus completing the discovery of the long - sought - for North - West voyage . The crew must have explored or seen portions of North ...
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... Turning south again they were beset in the middle ice , and all these difficulties were encountered by a ship hardly supplied with necessaries for the voyage out . The Diana was short also in her coal supply , and when her last bushel ...
... Turning south again they were beset in the middle ice , and all these difficulties were encountered by a ship hardly supplied with necessaries for the voyage out . The Diana was short also in her coal supply , and when her last bushel ...
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... turned in for five hours until breakfast time . Going on deck again , we found the wind still off the land , bringing down with it blasts of air that had become chilled by passing over the frozen mountain- sides to windward of us . High ...
... turned in for five hours until breakfast time . Going on deck again , we found the wind still off the land , bringing down with it blasts of air that had become chilled by passing over the frozen mountain- sides to windward of us . High ...
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... turning the schooner whenever the ice ahead is too thick to contend with . When once a wall of ice is formed by the combination of a number of pieces getting packed closely together , it entirely breaks the swell of the sea , and leaves ...
... turning the schooner whenever the ice ahead is too thick to contend with . When once a wall of ice is formed by the combination of a number of pieces getting packed closely together , it entirely breaks the swell of the sea , and leaves ...
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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