The Geographical Journal, 1. köideRoyal Geographical Society., 1893 Includes the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, formerly published separately. |
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... miles , and at the depth mentioned it seems to be about 170 nautical miles . To calculate the average speed of the current is very difficult ; it runs probably more rapidly at the surface than in its deeper parts , and , on the other ...
... miles , and at the depth mentioned it seems to be about 170 nautical miles . To calculate the average speed of the current is very difficult ; it runs probably more rapidly at the surface than in its deeper parts , and , on the other ...
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... miles of water every twenty - four hours into the polar basin . A third current running into the Polar Sea is that which runs northward through Bering Strait . This cannot be of great importance , as the strait is so narrow and shallow ...
... miles of water every twenty - four hours into the polar basin . A third current running into the Polar Sea is that which runs northward through Bering Strait . This cannot be of great importance , as the strait is so narrow and shallow ...
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... miles daily , until she was crushed in the ice and sank on June 13 , 1881 , north of the New Siberian Islands ( at about lat . 77 ° 15 ′ N. , long . 155 ° E. ) . This drift of the Jeannette shows that a current must be running north ...
... miles daily , until she was crushed in the ice and sank on June 13 , 1881 , north of the New Siberian Islands ( at about lat . 77 ° 15 ′ N. , long . 155 ° E. ) . This drift of the Jeannette shows that a current must be running north ...
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... miles in 107 days . Some of the men continued the drift on the ice , rounded Cape Farewell , and reached at last the Danish settlements on the west coast , their whole drift being about 1600 miles or more . In the winter of 1869 and ...
... miles in 107 days . Some of the men continued the drift on the ice , rounded Cape Farewell , and reached at last the Danish settlements on the west coast , their whole drift being about 1600 miles or more . In the winter of 1869 and ...
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... miles more , she will then only be in the same latitude as Cape Chelyuskin - 730 miles from the Pole , and about 600 miles from my supposed limit of the effective homeward carrying ocean current . After a close study of all the ...
... miles more , she will then only be in the same latitude as Cape Chelyuskin - 730 miles from the Pole , and about 600 miles from my supposed limit of the effective homeward carrying ocean current . After a close study of all the ...
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