The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to SpitzbergenH.S. King, 1873 - 355 páginas |
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... present the conditions are for the most part not the most favourable for warming the North Pole ; and the fact that it is less ice - encumbered than the South Pole probably arises from there being , as is supposed , little land near it ...
... present the conditions are for the most part not the most favourable for warming the North Pole ; and the fact that it is less ice - encumbered than the South Pole probably arises from there being , as is supposed , little land near it ...
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... present time . The climate must have been not only more equable but warmer , as is shown by the coral banks which were formed at that time in Spitzbergen , as well as by the enormous tree - like cryptogams , and the large - leaved ferns ...
... present time . The climate must have been not only more equable but warmer , as is shown by the coral banks which were formed at that time in Spitzbergen , as well as by the enormous tree - like cryptogams , and the large - leaved ferns ...
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... present time . Professor Heer believes that extensive forests were spread over all the North Polar lands during the Miocene period . Dr. Hooker infers from the present remarkable distribution of the Arctic plants that they migrated ...
... present time . Professor Heer believes that extensive forests were spread over all the North Polar lands during the Miocene period . Dr. Hooker infers from the present remarkable distribution of the Arctic plants that they migrated ...
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... present and past dis- tribution . This has been well shown in the case of botany by Dr. Hooker , whose remarks we quote . He referred to the existing flora of Greenland as being one of the most poverty - stricken in the globe , and yet ...
... present and past dis- tribution . This has been well shown in the case of botany by Dr. Hooker , whose remarks we quote . He referred to the existing flora of Greenland as being one of the most poverty - stricken in the globe , and yet ...
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... presents such a remarkable combination of peculiar features as this , and the only solution hitherto offered is not yet ... present - extend in force over INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER . 45 the Polar regions , including Greenland 44 A VOYAGE TO ...
... presents such a remarkable combination of peculiar features as this , and the only solution hitherto offered is not yet ... present - extend in force over INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER . 45 the Polar regions , including Greenland 44 A VOYAGE TO ...
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