Journal of a Voyage in Baffin's Bay and Barrow Straits, in the Years 1850-1851 ...: Under the Command of Mr. William Penney, in Search of the Missing Crews of H. M. Ships, Erebus and Terror ...Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852 - 506 Seiten |
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abundant advance animals appeared Arctic astern barometer Barrow Straits Beechey Island berg Berry Island beset boat breeze Cape Farewell Cape Shakleton Cape Spencer Cape York Captain Austin's squadron Captain Penny cast loose CHAP clear close coast colour command crew danger Danish settlers Davis Strait direction discovered distance dogs drifting ice ducks eastward edge eider-ducks eight Entomostraca Esquimaux Expedition fathoms favourable fixed ice gale glacier Greenland half icebergs inch Lady Franklin Lancaster Sound land ice large floes latitude little auk loons loose ice Melville Bay miles missing ships morning narwhal noon North-east Bay northerly northward o'clock observed open water overcast pack passed Petersen pressure rapid rock sail Saunderson's Hope seal season seemed seen settlement shore side sledge snow soon Sophia southerly wind southward surface temperature thick tide towing Uppernavik weather Wellington Channel westward whalers white whale winter young ice