Through the First Antarctic Night, 1898-1899: a Narrative of the Voyage of the "Belgica" ... Illustrated [with Plates, Including Portraits, and Maps.] |
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Alexander Islands Amundsen antarctic arctic Arctowski aurora bark Beagle Channel Belgian Belgian Antarctic Expedition Belgica Belgica Strait berg blue bright Cape Horn Captain cliffs clouds coast cold colour Danco dark deck drift east eastward edge efforts entire expedition exploration farther floes force Fuegian Gerlache Grahamland gray harbour horizon huge hummocks icebergs Indians Island land latitude Lecointe light longitude Magellan midnight miles Montevideo morning mountains navigation nearly night noon northward o'clock observations Onas pack pack-ice Patagonia penguins petrels polar night position Punta Arenas Racovitza regions rocks rose sailors sails scientific sea of ice seals seems sheep ship shore snow south polar southern southward steam storm Strait of Magellan surface Tabular Iceberg temperature thousand Tierra del Fuego tion to-day to-night Ushuaia vessel weather whales Wiencke Island wind winter Yahgans