The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to SpitzbergenH.S. King, 1873 - 355 páginas |
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A Voyage to Spitzbergen John Campion Wells. BRENT GEESE , EIDER DUCKS , AND YOUNG SNOW GOOSE . OBJECTS OF THE SEA - SHORE . 35 95 mass.
A Voyage to Spitzbergen John Campion Wells. BRENT GEESE , EIDER DUCKS , AND YOUNG SNOW GOOSE . OBJECTS OF THE SEA - SHORE . 35 95 mass.
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... mass by a rapid change shone out in the clear air , white as a snowdrift , and then cohort after cohort would float past again in another cloud - like mass . The noise , too , of so many wings , and the wild , scared cries from a host ...
... mass by a rapid change shone out in the clear air , white as a snowdrift , and then cohort after cohort would float past again in another cloud - like mass . The noise , too , of so many wings , and the wild , scared cries from a host ...
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... masses of 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 ...
... masses of 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 ...
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... masses , and they become undermined and eaten away along the edges as they drift southwards towards the warmer water flowing north from the Gulf Stream , which seems to find a limit to its force about this latitude . Spreading out like ...
... masses , and they become undermined and eaten away along the edges as they drift southwards towards the warmer water flowing north from the Gulf Stream , which seems to find a limit to its force about this latitude . Spreading out like ...
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... masses of ice , and the distant pros- pect is laden with heavy looking blocks , interspersed with flatter snow , covering all the fields on which little FIRST EXPERIENCES . 103 * hummocks of ice have formed 102 A VOYAGE TO SPITZBERGEN .
... masses of ice , and the distant pros- pect is laden with heavy looking blocks , interspersed with flatter snow , covering all the fields on which little FIRST EXPERIENCES . 103 * hummocks of ice have formed 102 A VOYAGE TO SPITZBERGEN .
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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