Under Sail in the Frozen NorthAccount of British Arctic Expedition, mainly Svalbard, in 1925. |
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Under Sail in the Frozen North: The Log of the 1926 British Arctic Expedition Frank Arthur Worsley No preview available - 2003 |
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ahead Algarsson aloft Ameland Amphipoda anchor Arctic terns astern basalt beach bear beautiful bergs Bisset boat breeze brigantine Burt Cape Barents Cape Flora channel chart Chermside clear close coast colour Crustacea danger dark deck disc distance dogs dredge drift east Echinodermata engines expedition fathoms feet Fiord floes Franz Josef Land gale Gastropoda Gilles Island glaciers Green Harbour growlers guillemots Harle Haul head heavy hummocks hundred ice-cap ice-cliffs inches ivory gulls light little auks looked mainsail Marr Mason mass midnight miles mist night North Cape North-East Land Northbrook Island Norwegian Novaya Zemlya Number offshore pack pack-ice Polar Pole Rectangular dredge reindeer rock round rudder running sail ship shoals side sight slightly snow sounding specimen spines Spitsbergen squall starboard stood swell tack thick Thom took vessel wardroom watch weather wind yards