The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to SpitzbergenH.S. King, 1873 - 355 páginas |
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... facts to be dis- covered cannot fail to have an important influence on all theories connected with their present and past dis- tribution . This has been well shown in the case of botany by Dr. Hooker , whose remarks we quote . He ...
... facts to be dis- covered cannot fail to have an important influence on all theories connected with their present and past dis- tribution . This has been well shown in the case of botany by Dr. Hooker , whose remarks we quote . He ...
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... facts ; and botanists look anxiously to further explorations in the northern parts of Greenland for more light on the subject , and espe- cially for evidence of rising or sinking of the land , and for evidence of ancient connection ...
... facts ; and botanists look anxiously to further explorations in the northern parts of Greenland for more light on the subject , and espe- cially for evidence of rising or sinking of the land , and for evidence of ancient connection ...
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... facts as those of the existence of ancient forests in what are now Arctic regions , and of the migration of existing flora over lands now bound fast in perpetual ice , appear to some naturalists to call for vaster changes than can be ...
... facts as those of the existence of ancient forests in what are now Arctic regions , and of the migration of existing flora over lands now bound fast in perpetual ice , appear to some naturalists to call for vaster changes than can be ...
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... facts render it probable that these natives , or rather their descendants , have gone north of 76 ° , while the musk oxen and other animals have come from the north . Probably , too , there is a tract of habitable land between the ...
... facts render it probable that these natives , or rather their descendants , have gone north of 76 ° , while the musk oxen and other animals have come from the north . Probably , too , there is a tract of habitable land between the ...
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... fact that there are several routes to the Pole , and something may be said in favour of each , and there is no reason why exploration should not be conducted along all . Next to investigating the lands which have already been discovered ...
... fact that there are several routes to the Pole , and something may be said in favour of each , and there is no reason why exploration should not be conducted along all . Next to investigating the lands which have already been discovered ...
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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