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... Valley have rivers in their beds : Gips Valley , Dry Valley , and others , are open , but for glaciers at their extreme heads . On the other hand the Post Glacier at the head of Temple Bay fills the valley between the Temple Mountains ...
... Valley have rivers in their beds : Gips Valley , Dry Valley , and others , are open , but for glaciers at their extreme heads . On the other hand the Post Glacier at the head of Temple Bay fills the valley between the Temple Mountains ...
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... Valley . Over Fox Glacier they reached a pass at a height of 2550 feet and descended Plough Glacier to a wide open valley , which they named Dreary Valley . In mist and gloom these ice - free valleys , with their wide sluggish rivers ...
... Valley . Over Fox Glacier they reached a pass at a height of 2550 feet and descended Plough Glacier to a wide open valley , which they named Dreary Valley . In mist and gloom these ice - free valleys , with their wide sluggish rivers ...
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... Valley . Conway and Garwood then returned over the Bolter Pass , 1340 feet , and the Bolter Valley to Adventdal . The next journey was eastward up Adventdal , and here the ponies could be used . If the explorers could have crossed ...
... Valley . Conway and Garwood then returned over the Bolter Pass , 1340 feet , and the Bolter Valley to Adventdal . The next journey was eastward up Adventdal , and here the ponies could be used . If the explorers could have crossed ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 13 |
CHAPTER PAGE I THE DISCOVERY | 17 |
PHYSICAL FEATURES AND CLIMATE | 29 |
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Advent Bay Advent Point adventures Antarctic Arctic balloon Barents Bear Island Bell Sound bergen boat British camp century chart claim coal coast of Spitsbergen Cross Bay Danes Island discovery Dutch Edge Island English Bay estates exploration feet fishery fjords foxes Franz Josef Land German glaciers Green Harbour Greenland Grumant Hinlopen Strait Horn Sound hunting sloop Icefjord Jan Mayen journey King James King's Bay later Leigh Smith Longyear Longyear City Lowe Sound miles mining Muscovy Company Nordenskjöld north coast North-East Land north-west Norway Norwegian Novaya Zemlya pack-ice polar Prince Charles Foreland Prince of Monaco Princesse Alice reached Red Bay regions reindeer sailed scurvy ship shore sledges sloop Smeerenburg snow Spits Spitsbergen Storfjord summer survey Svalbard Sweden Swedish expedition tion tourist travelling Tromsö Valley vessel visited Spitsbergen voyage walrus weather west coast whalers Wiche Islands winter yacht