Fighting the Polar IceDoubleday, Page & Company, 1906 - 296 pages Leader's account of Ziegler-Fiala Polar Expedition to Zemlya Frantsa-Iosifa, 1903-05. Includes report on scientific work and table of winds and temperatures at Ostrov Rudol'fa, September 1903 to April 1904. |
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aboard Alger Island America ANTHONY FIALA Arctic Assistant bear boat cache cake Camp Abruzzi Camp Point Camp Ziegler canoe Cape Dillon Cape Fligely Cape Flora Captain Coffin clothing coal Coburg Island cold column cook crew darkness deck degrees below zero dog food dog sledges dog teams drift Duffy Engineer equipment feet Field Department floes frozen gave glacier Hartt hauling heavy Hooker Island July Kane Lodge kayak land light march north miles morning night Northbrook Island Norway observatory pack pemmican Peters Pierre LeRoyer pony sledges Porter pounds pressure ridges Rainer Island rations reached Relief Ship Rilliet rough ice Rudolph Island Seaman Seitz Shannon Island ship's shore shot sledge journey sledge loads sledge party sledge trip sleeping bags snow Sound steam Steward Spencer storm temperature tent Teplitz Bay trail Tromso Trondhjem Vedoe weather wind winter