The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to SpitzbergenH.S. King, 1873 - 355 páginas |
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... temperature between the zone of greatest cold and the tropic of the northern hemi- sphere , would seem an adequate and probable cause for the generation of magnetic currents and storms . The auroras are observed to occur in cycles of ...
... temperature between the zone of greatest cold and the tropic of the northern hemi- sphere , would seem an adequate and probable cause for the generation of magnetic currents and storms . The auroras are observed to occur in cycles of ...
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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 ...
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... 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 ...
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... 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 95
... 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.
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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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