Handbook of Arctic DiscoveriesRoberts brothers, 1895 - 257 pages |
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abandoned America April archipelago Arctic August Baffin Bay BARENTS Barrow Strait BEECHEY Bering Strait beset boat Boothia cache Cape Cape Walker Captain Chapter chart COLLINSON command Coppermine crew crossed DEASE discovered discoveries Dutch east coast East Greenland eastward efforts Eskimo expedition explorations farther farthest feet Fiord floe FRANKLIN Franz Josef Land geographic glaciers GREELY Greenland Grinnell Land Harbor Hudson Bay ice-cap inland-ice Inlet Island Jan Mayen journey July June KANE Kara Sea King William Land Lancaster Sound later latitude Lieutenant LOCKWOOD London M'CLURE Mackenzie MCCLINTOCK Melville miles mouth natives navigation NORDENSKIÖLD northeast northern northward Northwest Passage Nova Zembla observations PARRY party passed PEARY Point Barrow Polar Sea Prince reached region reindeer Repulse Bay River Ross Russian sailed scientific SCORESBY September ship shore Siberian SIMPSON sledge Spitzbergen station success tion vessel visited voyage west coast westward whalers winter quarters
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Page 128 - Strait, but continue to push to the westward without loss of time, in the latitude of about 74°J, till you have reached the longitude of that portion of land on which Cape Walker is situated, or about 98° west.
Page 130 - W. Having wintered in 1846-7 at Beechey Island in lat. 74° 43' 28" N., long. 91° 39' 15" W., after having ascended Wellington Channel to lat. 77° and returned by the west side of Cornwallis Island. Sir John Franklin commanding the expedition ; all well. Party consisting of two officers and six men left the ships on Monday, 24th May, 1847.
Page 132 - This paper was found by Lieut. Irving under the cairn supposed to have been built by Sir James Ross in 1831 4 miles to the northward where it had been deposited by the late Commander Gore in June 1847. Sir James Ross's pillar has not however been found, and the paper has been transferred to this position, which is that in which Sir J.
Page 68 - I knew must lie Jan Mayen. A few minutes more, and slowly, silently, in a manner you could take no count of, its dusky hem first deepened to a violet tinge, then gradually lifting, displayed a long line of coast- — in reality but the roots of Beerenberg — dyed of the darkest purple; while, obedient to a common impulse, the clouds that wrapt its summit gently disengaged themselves, and left the mountain standing in all the magnificence of his 6870 feet, girdled by a single zone of pearly vapour,...
Page 128 - We direct you to this particular part of the Polar Sea as affording the best prospect of accomplishing the passage to the Pacific...
Page 132 - Ross' pillar has not however been found, and the paper has been transferred to this position, which is that in which Sir James Ross
Page 18 - ... of the world known; for by divers good observations I found it to be above five points, or fifty-six degrees varied to the westward.
Page 128 - In proceeding to the westward, you will not stop to examine any openings, either to the northward or southward in that strait, but...
Page 131 - CENOTAPH IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY NOT here! the white North has thy bones; and thou, Heroic sailor-soul, Art passing on thine happier voyage now Toward no earthly pole.