Memoir, Descriptive and Explanatory, to Accompany the General Chart of the Northern Ocean, Davis' Strait and Baffin's Bay: Including the Navigation from Great Britain and Ireland to Spitzbergen and the White Sea: and Containing 1. Tables of the Determined Positions of All the Principal Points &c. ...Richard Holmes Laurie, chart-seller to the admirality, &c. &c. no. 53, Fleet-street, 1820 - Arctic Ocean - 165 pages |
Common terms and phrases
aberration animal appeared ascertained aurora borealis Baffin's Bay bank bear boat bottom breeze called Cape Farewell Captain Ross Captain Scoresby Chart clear cliffs colour compass considerable course Danish Davis's Strait degree depth described direction discovered distance Dutch east eastern coast eastward entrance extended Fair Isle Farn Islands fathoms feet Finmarker Fiord fish fishery floes frequently Greenland Sea Hammerfest harbour height horizon Hudson's Bay icebergs Iceland inhabitants Isabella island Isles kraken land latitude leagues Lerwick Lieut light lighthouse longitude miles morning Moskenes mountains natives navigators nearly noon North Cape northern northward Norway observations ocean Orkney phænomena pieces of ice point of change quantity remarkable rocks sail says season seems seen Shetland ship's head ships shore side situation snow Sound southward Spitzbergen surface Survey thick tide Upernavik variation vessels voyage weather western westward whales White Sea whole wind winter