The Heart of the Antarctic: Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909, Volume 2J.B. Lippincott, 1909 - Antarctica |
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Alpine rope Antarctic Armytage Beacon sandstone birds biscuits blizzard blowing blubber Butter Point camp Cape Barne Cape Royds Captain Evans cliff clouds coast cracks crevasses crystals December depôt distance dogs drift Dry Valley Drygalski Glacier edge expedition Fahr fast ice feet Ferrar Glacier finnesko floe following day formed frozen geological glacier ice granite heavy height hoosh Hut Point inches January journey Joyce kenyte lakes Larsen Mackay Magnetic Pole Marston Mawson McMurdo Sound miles moraines morning Mount Erebus Mount Nansen mountains nest névé night Nimrod Northern Party nunatak observations open water pack penguins plateau wind Priestley reached ridges rocks sastrugi sea ice sea-level seal meat seen ship shore side skua sledge sleeping-bag slope snow lids soft snow Southern specimens steam steep surface temperature tent thaw thick tide-crack travelled Victoria Land weather winter quarters yards
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Page 79 - The old dragon under ground In straiter limits bound., Not half so far casts his usurped sway, And wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. Milton.
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Page 222 - The Adelie is always comical. He pops out of the water with startling suddenness, like a jack-in-the-box, alights on his feet, gives his tail a shake, and toddles off about his business. He always knows where he wants to go, and what he wants to do, and isn't easily turned aside from his purpose. In the
Page 3 - made the more intense by our knowledge of the fact that we were steadily marching away from the stores of plenty. We could not joke about food, in the way that is possible for the man who is hungry in the ordinary sense. We thought about it most of the time, and on the way back
Page 357 - angles and azimuths were taken with the theodolite. Variation was ascertained by means of a compass attached to the theodolite, and the steering compasses were checked accordingly. At noon each day the prismatic compasses were placed in the true meridian, and checked against the theodolite compass and the steering compasses. The
Page 145 - Coldly thy rosy shadows bathe me, cold Are all thy lights, and cold my wrinkled feet.
Page 343 - during a blizzard, the air was generally so thick with snow that we were unable to see the top of Erebus. At the end of a blizzard the air current over Erebus became suddenly reversed, the steam-cloud swinging round from the south to the north. After a time, following on the conclusion of a blizzard,
Page 278 - Throughout the whole of the region of Antarctica examined by us, for 16° of latitude, there is evidence of a recent great diminution in the glaciation. In McMurdo Sound this arm of the sea now free from land ice was formerly filled by a branch of the Great Ice Barrier, whose surface rose fully
Page 3 - felt as we were feeling, and I arrived at the conclusion that they did not, for no barrier of law and order would have been allowed to stand between us and any food that had been available. The man who starves in a city is weakened, hopeless, spiritless, and we were vigorous and keen. Until January 9 the desire for food was
Page 3 - used to talk about it, but always in the most serious manner possible. We used to plan out the enormous meals that we proposed to have when we got back to the ship and, later, to