 Had it been possible to have found a place of security upon any part of this coast where we might have wintered in sight of the brilliant burning mountain (Erebus), and at so short a distance from the magnetic pole ; both of these interesting spots might...  Scottish Geographical Magazine - Side 601894Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Sir James Clark Ross - 1847 - 478 sider
...40', and the variation 109° 24' E. We were therefore only one hundred and sixty miles from the pole.* Had it been possible to have found a place of security...so short a distance from the magnetic pole, both of those interesting spots might easily have been reached by travelling parties in the following spring... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, George Walter Prothero - 1847 - 580 sider
...magnetic pole, from which at this moment they were distant ICO miles: — ' Had it been possible lo have found a place of security upon any part of this coast where we might have entered, in sight of the brilliant burning mountain, and at so short a distance from the magnetic pole,... | |
 | Charles Tomlinson - 1848 - 214 sider
...40', so that they were only 160 miles from the pole. " Had it been possible," says Captain Ross, " to have found a place of security upon any part of...so short a distance from the magnetic pole, both of those interesting spots might easily have been reached by travelling parties in the following spring... | |
 | John Stilwell Jenkins - 1853 - 534 sider
...and the variation 109° 24' E. We were therefore only one hundred and sixty miles from the pole. " Had it been possible to have found a place of security,...so short a distance from the magnetic pole, both of those interesting spots might easily have been reached by travelling parties in the following spring... | |
 | Henry Woodward - 1903 - 654 sider
...vegetable desolation ever since." Writing of Victoria Land, Sir James Ross in February, 1841, said : " Had it been possible to have found a place of security...wintered in sight of the brilliant burning mountain (Erebut), and at so short a distance from the magnetic pole ; both of these interesting spots might... | |
 | Charles Tomlinson - 1872 - 392 sider
...88° 40', so that they were only 160 miles from the pole. " Had it been possible," says Captain Ross, "to have found a place of security upon any part of...so short a distance from the magnetic pole, both of those interesting spots might easily have been reached by travelling parties in the following spring... | |
 | Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society - 1904 - 918 sider
...vegetable desolation ever since." Writing of Victoria Land, Sir James Ross in February, 1841, said : " Had it been possible to have found a place of security...wintered in sight of the brilliant burning mountain (Erebus), and at so short a distance from the magnetic pole ; both of these interesting spots might... | |
 | 1880 - 470 sider
...prepared to winter in the highest latitudes which he attained. He writes :— " Had it been poaaible to have found a place of security upon any part of this coast [South Victoria Land] where we might have wintered in sight of the brilliant burning mountain [Mount... | |
 | Henry Woodward - 1903 - 654 sider
...vegetable desolation ever since." Writing of Victoria Land, Sir James Ross in February, 1841, said : " Had it been possible to have found a place of security...wintered in sight of the brilliant burning mountain (Erebus), and at so short a distance from the magnetic pole ; both of these interesting spots might... | |
 | Henry Woodward - 1903 - 712 sider
...vegetable desolation ever since." Writing of Victoria Land, Sir James Ross in February, 1841, said : " Had it been possible to have found a place of security...wintered in sight of the brilliant burning mountain (Erebus), and at so short a distance from the magnetic pole ; both of these interesting spots might... | |
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