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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12 Paternoster Row 65 Cornhill amongst animals Arctic circle Author Barentsz bear boat Cape Captain coast crew Crown 8vo curious danger deer Demy 8vo difficulty direction distance drift east Edition expedition explored fathoms fiord floating floe flora gale Greenland Gulf Stream harpoon herd hope Humboldt Glacier hummock Iceland Illustrated INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER journey Lancaster Sound land latitude London look masses miles Miocene Moffen Island mountain narwhal northern Norwegian Nova Zembla observed once open water ourselves Parry party Polar Pole present Price published by Henry pursuit reached region reindeer rocks round sailed sailors Samoyedes SCALLOWAY CASTLE schooner scientific seal season seems seen ship shore shot side sight sledge Smith Sound snow southward Spitzbergen sport Strait surface temperature thick tion vessel vols Waigatz walrus WALTER BAGEHOT warm weather whale Willem Barentsz wind winter