Heroes of the Farthest North and Farthest South |
Contents
CHAPTER | 5 |
SIR JOHN FRANKLIN IN THE FROZEN NORTH | 29 |
THE HORRORS OF AN ICY PRISON | 56 |
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able adventure Antarctic Antarctic Circle Arctic exploration bergs boats brave Cape Chelyuskin Cape Sabine Captain Scott coast cold command companions comrades Coppermine River crew dangers death depôt despatched difficulties discovered discovery dogs drifting enterprise Erebus escape Eskimos expedition face farther Farthest fate feet floe Franz Josef Land frozen gale George Nares glacier Greely Greenland hardships honour hope ice-pack Island John Cabot July Kane Kara Sea King later latitude leaving Lieutenant Manchurian ponies Melville miles months Nansen Nares navigation night North Pole northward Novaya Zemlya open water Parry passage passed Peary Polar Sea Polaris ponies provisions pushed reach the Pole Robeson Channel Ross safety sailed seemed Shackleton ship shore Sir John Franklin sledge sledge journey sledge parties snow South Pole southwards Spitzbergen storm story Strait struggle suffering terrible travelling vessel voyage wind winter quarters