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G. Firth Scott. The Romance of Polar Exploration
The Romance of Polar Exploration
Table of Contents
Preface
Publishers' Note
CHAPTER I THE ARCTIC REGION
CHAPTER II SIR JOHN FRANKLIN
CHAPTER III THE SEARCH FOR FRANKLIN
CHAPTER IV THE VOYAGE OF THE POLARIS
CHAPTER V THE ALERT AND DISCOVERY
CHAPTER VI THE GREELY EXPEDITION
CHAPTER VII PEARY IN GREENLAND
CHAPTER VIII NANSEN AND THE FRAM
CHAPTER IX FRANZ JOSEF LAND AND SPITZBERGEN
CHAPTER X THE POLAR METEORITES
CHAPTER XI THE SECOND VOYAGE OF THE FRAM
CHAPTER XII ITALY CLAIMS THE RECORD
CHAPTER XIII THE ANTARCTIC REGION
CHAPTER XIV VOYAGES OF THE EREBUS AND TERROR
CHAPTER XV THE SOUTHERN CROSS EXPEDITION
CHAPTER XVI THE REVIVAL OF ANTARCTIC INTEREST
CHAPTER XVII THE SWEDISH EXPEDITION
CHAPTER XVIII BRITAIN HOLDS HER OWN
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G. Firth Scott
Interesting Descriptions of Arctic and Antarctic Adventure from the Earliest Time to the Voyage of the "Discovery"
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They rounded Cape Lambton on Banks' Land, a promontory which they found rose a thousand feet precipitously. The land beyond gradually lost the bold character of the rugged cape, the island presenting a view of hills in the interior which gradually sloped to the shore, having fine valleys and extensive plains, over and through which several small and one considerable sized stream flowed. A great deal of drift-wood lay along the beach, and the land was covered with verdure upon which large flocks of geese were feeding, while ducks were flying in great numbers. Two small islands were passed off the coast, one of which afforded an example of the force exerted by a drifting Polar Sea ice-floe. The island rose about forty feet above the surface of the sea, and broken masses of ice, which had formed a floe, had been driven entirely over it.
The pack still presented an impassable barrier to their course away from the land, and as the season was getting late they decided that they would make winter quarters. A suitable bay was found on the north of the island, and there they spent, not one, but two winters, for the ice remained so thick during the ensuing short summer that it was impossible to move. In the summer, however, if they could not get to sea, they could travel on to the land, and as game was plentiful they were able to keep themselves well supplied with fresh meat. But when winter again came upon them with its cold darkness, the game was scarcer, and, what was worse, the ship's stores were decreasing.
