The Romance of the South Pole: Antarctic Voyages and ExplorationsThomas Nelson and Sons, 1900 - Počet stran: 235 |
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The Romance of the South Pole: Antarctic Voyages and Explorations George Barnett Smith Úplné zobrazení - 1902 |
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Admiralty Adventure afterwards anchor Antarctic Circle Antarctic regions appeared Archipelago Arctic Auckland Islands aurora australis Balana blue petrels boat Bougainville British called Cape Cape Horn Captain Cook chart coast commander Cook gave course covered crew D'Urville Dampier dangerous December depths Diemen's Land discovered discovery east eastward Endeavour Enderby Enderby Land expedition explored fathoms February gale gave the name Guinea harbour height Holland honour hope hundred ice islands icebergs Isle January Kerguelen Island latitude leagues Lieutenant longitude magnetic pole miles Mount Erebus mountains natives navigators nearly northward observations observatory Ocean passed Port proceeded Quiros river rocks round sailed scientific seen ship shore Sir James Ross Sir John snow South Pole South Seas South Shetland south-west southward Strait Strait of Magellan Tasman temperature tion trees Tupia Van Diemen's Land vessels visited voyage weather Weddell westward whales Wilkes Zealand
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Strana 56 - Lepers, did no more than discover that the land was not connected, but composed of islands, which he called the Great Cyclades.
Strana 41 - Solander, in order to go ashore, we saw ten of them upon a hill : Nine of them were armed with such lances as we had been used to see, and the tenth had a bow, and a bundle of arrows, which we had never seen in the possession of the natives of this country before : We also observed, that two of...
Strana 170 - I felt myself compelled to abandon the perhaps too ambitious hope I had so long cherished of being permitted to plant the flag of my country on both the magnetic poles of our globe.
Strana 44 - Holland, our old jolly sail-maker and his assistant, the ship's cook, the corporal of the marines, two of the carpenter's crew, a midshipman, and nine seamen...
Strana 57 - As the Resolution pursued her course from New Caledonia, land was discovered, which, on a nearer approach, was found to be an island, of good height, and five leagues in circuit. Captain Cook named it Norfolk Isle, in honour of the noble family of Howard.
Strana 70 - I need make no reflection on the great loss we suffered on this occasion, or attempt to describe what we felt. It is enough to say that no man was ever more beloved or admired : and it is truly painful to reflect that he seems to have fallen a sacrifice merely for want of being properly supported ; a fate singularly to be lamented as having fallen to his lot, who had ever been conspicuous for his care of those under his command, and who seemed, to the last, to pay as much attention to their preservation...
Strana 167 - Mount Erebus was observed to emit smoke and flame in unusual quantities, producing a most grand spectacle ; a volume of dense smoke was projected at each successive jet with great force, in a vertical column, to the height of between...
Strana 154 - ... That the commanders of each of these great national undertakings should have selected the very place for penetrating to the southward, for the exploration of which they were well aware, at the time, that the expedition under my command was expressly preparing, and thereby forestalling our purposes, did certainly greatly surprise me. I should have expected their national pride would have caused them rather to have chosen any other path in the wide field before them than one thus pointed out, if...
Strana 155 - French had so signally failed to get beyond even the 6'?0 of latitude. For I was well aware how ill-adapted their ships were for a service of that nature from not being fortified to withstand the shocks and pressure they must have been necessarily exposed to, had they ventured to penetrate any extensive body of ice. They would have equally failed had they tried it upon the meridian I had now chosen, for it will be seen we met with a broad belt of ice, upwards of two hundred miles across, which...
Strana 189 - The helm was put up to pay the ship off, but the proximity of those under our lee bade me keep my course. All was now still, except the distant roar of the wild storm that was raging behind, before, and above us ; the sea was in great agitation, and both officers and men were in the highest degree excited.