The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to SpitzbergenH.S. King, 1873 - 355 páginas |
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... temperature . This has the effect of throwing the zone of greatest cold towards the south , especially where the lands advance far north . Observations upon the thickness of ice found each winter or each year at several localities would ...
... temperature . This has the effect of throwing the zone of greatest cold towards the south , especially where the lands advance far north . Observations upon the thickness of ice found each winter or each year at several localities would ...
Página 57
... temperature at a depth of 400 fathoms , showing a difference of 9 ° at that depth when compared with the temperature at the surface ; a fact so extraordinary as to lead scientific men to assume that this , our asser- tion , is so ...
... temperature at a depth of 400 fathoms , showing a difference of 9 ° at that depth when compared with the temperature at the surface ; a fact so extraordinary as to lead scientific men to assume that this , our asser- tion , is so ...
Página 94
... northern lands of the earth , and , hurried along by the torrent , floated out into the open seas , where the climate is mild enough , and the temperature of the water is sufficiently high to admit of the existence of the wood.
... northern lands of the earth , and , hurried along by the torrent , floated out into the open seas , where the climate is mild enough , and the temperature of the water is sufficiently high to admit of the existence of the wood.
Página 99
... the higher temperature in which it floats , until it assumes the form of the knarled stem and riven roots of some old forest tree overturned by a storm ; there is the finely- curved neck of a haughty swan carved in the purest.
... the higher temperature in which it floats , until it assumes the form of the knarled stem and riven roots of some old forest tree overturned by a storm ; there is the finely- curved neck of a haughty swan carved in the purest.
Página 106
... temperature of water 31 ° , of air 32 ° . The ice continues to head us since the 7th , and we determine to sail north . Here we obtain our first midnight observation of the sun , and find the altitude 6 ° 30 ' , lat . 73.12 . Up to this ...
... temperature of water 31 ° , of air 32 ° . The ice continues to head us since the 7th , and we determine to sail north . Here we obtain our first midnight observation of the sun , and find the altitude 6 ° 30 ' , lat . 73.12 . Up to this ...
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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