The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to SpitzbergenH.S. King, 1873 - 355 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 6-10 de 33
Página 29
... mountains running north and south , and visible for about sixty miles . In 1871 , Lieutenants Payer and Weyprecht attempted to follow up these discoveries by proceeding through Stor Fiord . The way was blocked , and so they tried to get ...
... mountains running north and south , and visible for about sixty miles . In 1871 , Lieutenants Payer and Weyprecht attempted to follow up these discoveries by proceeding through Stor Fiord . The way was blocked , and so they tried to get ...
Página 37
... mountain limestone . Further research will probably indicate its occurrence in other northern countries . The bearing which these facts have on climate is thus expressed by Professor Heer : " More- over the climate of Bear Island must ...
... mountain limestone . Further research will probably indicate its occurrence in other northern countries . The bearing which these facts have on climate is thus expressed by Professor Heer : " More- over the climate of Bear Island must ...
Página 44
... mountains of the United States . No other flora known to naturalists presents such a remarkable combination of peculiar features as this , and the only solution hitherto offered is not yet fully accepted . It is that the Scandinavian ...
... mountains of the United States . No other flora known to naturalists presents such a remarkable combination of peculiar features as this , and the only solution hitherto offered is not yet fully accepted . It is that the Scandinavian ...
Página 45
... Mountains in their longitudes . The effect in Greenland would be to leave there only the more Arctic forms of vegetation unchanged in habits or features , the rest being , as it were , driven into the sea . But the effect on the ...
... Mountains in their longitudes . The effect in Greenland would be to leave there only the more Arctic forms of vegetation unchanged in habits or features , the rest being , as it were , driven into the sea . But the effect on the ...
Página 46
... mountain types ; and , on the other , that a few Greenland Scandinavian types which had been lost in the struggle ... Mountains . And , lastly , that a number of Scandi- navian plants which had changed their form or habit during the ...
... mountain types ; and , on the other , that a few Greenland Scandinavian types which had been lost in the struggle ... Mountains . And , lastly , that a number of Scandi- navian plants which had changed their form or habit during the ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
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
Pasajes populares
Página 360 - Field and Forest Rambles of a Naturalist in New Brunswick. With Notes and Observations on the Natural History of Eastern Canada.
Página 361 - Almost every page abounds with composition of peculiar merit, as well as with an account of some thrilling event more exciting than any to be found in an ordinary work of fiction.