The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to SpitzbergenH.S. King, 1873 - 355 páginas |
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... attempting to reach the Pole by the easiest route , leaving the more leisurely and time - absorbing scientific explorations to future expeditions . There are three ways into the Arctic Ocean , viz . , through Behring Strait , through ...
... attempting to reach the Pole by the easiest route , leaving the more leisurely and time - absorbing scientific explorations to future expeditions . There are three ways into the Arctic Ocean , viz . , through Behring Strait , through ...
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... attempts will also be more successful by this route than by the others . The failures to reach the Pole by this route have frequently been brought forward as an objection ; but this objec- tion equally applies to the Smith Sound route ...
... attempts will also be more successful by this route than by the others . The failures to reach the Pole by this route have frequently been brought forward as an objection ; but this objec- tion equally applies to the Smith Sound route ...
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... attempt to prosecute a voyage so well begun , and our friend was most reluctantly compelled to relinquish an oppor- tunity of sailing into the sea whose very existence is denied by some , although the season was of rare suit- ability ...
... attempt to prosecute a voyage so well begun , and our friend was most reluctantly compelled to relinquish an oppor- tunity of sailing into the sea whose very existence is denied by some , although the season was of rare suit- ability ...
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... attempting to convey impressions which experience alone can supply . All our efforts to over- come the obstinate resistance of the gale which now rages from the north proving quite ineffectual , we are compelled to run in again and seek ...
... attempting to convey impressions which experience alone can supply . All our efforts to over- come the obstinate resistance of the gale which now rages from the north proving quite ineffectual , we are compelled to run in again and seek ...
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... attempt , so there was nothing for it but to retrace our steps and endeavour by some short cut to join the others on the sandy beach below . Getting down again we struck across a kind of lagoon , rough with frozen snow , called by ...
... attempt , so there was nothing for it but to retrace our steps and endeavour by some short cut to join the others on the sandy beach below . Getting down again we struck across a kind of lagoon , rough with frozen snow , called by ...
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amongst animals Arctic circle Arctic seas Barentsz bear Beerenberg boat Cape Captain coast cold crew Crown 8vo curious danger deer depth difficulty direction distance drift east escape expedition explored fathoms feet fiord floating floe flora force gale Greenland Gulf Stream harpoon herd hope Humboldt Glacier hummock icebergs Iceland INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER journey Kennedy Channel Lancaster Sound land latitude look masses miles Miocene Moffen Island mountain narwhal North Somerset northern Norwegian Nova Zembla object observed once open sea open water ourselves pack Parry party Polar Pole present pursuit reached regions reindeer rocks round sail sailors Samoyedes schooner seal season seems seen ship shore shot side sight sledges Smith Sound snow soon southward Spitzbergen sport steamer Strait stream surface temperature thick tion vessel voyage Waigatz walrus warm water weather whale wind winter
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