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... vessel on his first expedition ) both were col- liers , built to transport coal in the East Coast trade , strongly built , with a shallow draft , and good sailors , if slow . Endeav- our had proved itself an ideal exploratory vessel ...
... vessel on his first expedition ) both were col- liers , built to transport coal in the East Coast trade , strongly built , with a shallow draft , and good sailors , if slow . Endeav- our had proved itself an ideal exploratory vessel ...
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... vessels for sailing in ice- infested waters . Thus , their gun ports remained open and their timbers unstrengthened . The vessels selected were two corvettes , Dumont d'Urville's established expedition vessel , the 380 - ton Astrolabe ...
... vessels for sailing in ice- infested waters . Thus , their gun ports remained open and their timbers unstrengthened . The vessels selected were two corvettes , Dumont d'Urville's established expedition vessel , the 380 - ton Astrolabe ...
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... vessel that had sailed from Halifax three months before St. Roch but whose route had taken it through the Panama Canal and up the west coast of North America . Together , the two vessels had circumnavigated North America . At Holman ...
... vessel that had sailed from Halifax three months before St. Roch but whose route had taken it through the Panama Canal and up the west coast of North America . Together , the two vessels had circumnavigated North America . At Holman ...
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Contents | xii |
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Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia [2 volumes] William James Mills Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 2003 |
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Amundsen Antarctic expedition Antarctic Exploration Antarctic Peninsula Antarctica Arctic Ocean attempt August Baffin Island Barents Barrow Beechey Bellingshausen Bering Strait Bernier Biscoe Borchgrevink Bouvet Bouvet Island British Bylot Byrd Cabot Cape Captain Charcot claim Cook crew Davis days later Deception Island discovered discovery dogs East Greenland Edward Ellesmere Island Ellsworth Enderby established expedition's farther north February flight Franklin Franz Josef Land Frobisher further reading Geographical George Gerlache Greenland Ice Shelf Inuit James Clark January John journey King Larsen Located London meters miles mountains named Nansen navigator Nordenskjöld North Pole Northeast northern Northwest Passage Norway Norwegian Parry party Peary polar exploration reached References and further region River Roald Russian sailed scientific Scott sealer seals Shackleton ship sledging Sound South Pole South Shetland Islands southern Spitsbergen station survey Svalbard tion vessel Victoria Land visited voyage Weddell Sea west coast whaling William winter Zemlya