The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to SpitzbergenH.S. King, 1873 - 355 páginas |
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... floating on or near the surface . Caught at last in some ocean current , the wood is drifted westwards , and at length finds a resting - place on this desolate coast . These sea - worms cannot live in the Arctic seas , and the driftwood ...
... floating on or near the surface . Caught at last in some ocean current , the wood is drifted westwards , and at length finds a resting - place on this desolate coast . These sea - worms cannot live in the Arctic seas , and the driftwood ...
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... floating , toiling ice . Here is a plain of some twenty square yards burthened with little mounds of ice covered with folds of frozen snow ; here is a patch of a hundred square yards more heavily weighted with little hummocks , as the ...
... floating , toiling ice . Here is a plain of some twenty square yards burthened with little mounds of ice covered with folds of frozen snow ; here is a patch of a hundred square yards more heavily weighted with little hummocks , as the ...
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... floating ice , driving it with sudden force , and grinding each block against its immediate neighbour ; then the brittle floor soon gets crushed and shattered in every direction . The newly - exposed fracture glints in the sunlight with ...
... floating ice , driving it with sudden force , and grinding each block against its immediate neighbour ; then the brittle floor soon gets crushed and shattered in every direction . The newly - exposed fracture glints in the sunlight with ...
Página 102
... float- ing object we are watching will plunge head foremost into the waves , and what was but recently its sub- merged ... floating masses of ice , and the distant pros- pect is laden with heavy looking blocks , interspersed with flatter ...
... float- ing object we are watching will plunge head foremost into the waves , and what was but recently its sub- merged ... floating masses of ice , and the distant pros- pect is laden with heavy looking blocks , interspersed with flatter ...
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... floating over the surrounding sea which have an interest of their own nearly equal to the lustre of the ice itself— we mean the air and water - worn portions of the ice , which , in their dissolution , grow into the resemblance of ...
... floating over the surrounding sea which have an interest of their own nearly equal to the lustre of the ice itself— we mean the air and water - worn portions of the ice , which , in their dissolution , grow into the resemblance of ...
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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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