Heroes of the Polar Seas: A Record of Exploration in the Arctic and Antarctic Seas |
Contents
ACCOMPLISHED | 83 |
THE HORRORS OF AN ICY PRISON | 98 |
THE NORTHEAST PASSAGE | 213 |
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able Antarctic Antarctic Circle Arctic exploration Beardmore Glacier boats brave camp Cape Chelyuskin Cape Sabine Cape Sheridan Captain Scott coast cold command companions comrades Coppermine River crevasses crew dangers death depot despatched difficulties discovered discovery dogs drifting endurance enterprise escape Eskimos expedition face farther fate feet floe Fort Chipewyan Franz Josef Land frozen gale George Nares glacier goal Greely Greenland harbour hardships honour hope Island July land later latitude leaving Lieutenant miles months Nansen Nares navigators night North Pole northern northward Novaya Zemlya open water passage passed Peary Polar Sea provisions pushed reach the Pole record Robeson Channel Ross route sailed seemed Shackleton ship shore Sir John Franklin sledge sledge journey sledge parties Smith Sound snow South Pole southward Spitzbergen story Strait struggle suffering surface terrible tion travelling vessel voyage wind winter