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...rthur Pym was on board at the time of his disappearance. Through the efforts of Mr. Joerling, the crew of the Halbrane is enticed to make the trip to Antarctica to search for any survivors of the Jane....
...that the Russians wanted, and the United States would have control from the Artic to the Antarctic, which included Alaska, Canada, and North and Sou... ...t, or I guarantee that NASA will be scrubbing for Martian meteorites on the ice fields of Antarctic.” Barkley was glad his old friend showed up. He...
...; Briggs (369) (wanted to include photos in a history of a station in the Antarctic); CAA (647) (describing scholarly journals and publications that ... ...ically locate the author (perhaps because the author is doing research in Antarctica) does not mean that the search could not “locate” the author. ...
...join an adventure that will roam among coral and pearls, sharks and giant squid, with wonders of biology and engineering that will thrust us from the Antarctic to Atlantis. Whether voyaging a yarn of the glorious unknown, a tale of the darkness that grips the heart of men, or a reinterpretation of Homer’s Odyssey, we’ll all enjoy the fantastic trip. Seasickness optional. (...
...An air force pilot adrift in peacetime is recruited to join an Antarctic expedition. When a strange mist downs his plane he discovers an ancient alien civilization which has prophesized his arrival. Now he and his faithful pet Ana must descend to the depths of the crater and face the Bla...
...n insatiably to an isolated state as if the car could take her straight into Antarctica. She, Gabriele, spit her snuff into an empty beer can as she d... ...eality if Antinomy had been a little island off of our beloved motherland of Antarctica. Anyhow, in the land of Atlantis or Antinomy a child was born... ...ungered after the assistant professor because he had been as inaccessible as Antarctica. She had successfully obtained him and this was due to the fa... ...of a trip to Germany with her aunt; college friends; and yet some of unknown Antarctica, a dreamy non-asthmatic land of ice mountains and valleys. In ... ...re would be no tacit or overt pressures to get a job and become someone. In Antarctica an exceptionally aware person would not have to go through the... ...his would be the source of another research paper which she would conduct in Antarctica. Daydreams gave movement and stimulation to housewives standin... ...me more palatable to reminisce over. Then she fell asleep with the ideas of Antarctica in her mind. When she woke, her thoughts were disconcerted an... ...ing to no one; and she continually told herself that one day she would go to Antarctica. Gabriele thought again about her interaction with this woman,... ... a hiatus from this Mommy game is a bit tempting. I could dump him on them. Antarctica -- Antarctica. It's still in my dreams --" "What about me? W...
...on, East and South Asia IX. Southeast Asia X. Oceania XI. Arctic Region XII. Antarctic Region XIII. Standard Time Zones of the World Notes, Definitio... ...dary disputes: none; maritime dis- pute with Indonesia; territorial claim in Antarctica (Australian Antarctic Territory) Climate: generally arid to se... ... disputes: Paraguay (Rio Parana area), Uruguay; claims a Zone of Interest in Antarctica Climate: mostly tropical, but temperate in south Terrain: most... ...1884; dispute with Bolivia over Rio Lauca water rights; territorial claim in Antarctica (Chilean Antarctic Territory) Climate: temperate; desert in no... ...Tromelin Island; Suriname claims part of French Guiana; territorial claim in Antarctica (Adelie Land) Climate: generally cool winters and mild summers... ...sland, Europa Island, French Guiana, French Polynesia, French South- ern and Antarctic Lands, Glorioso Islands, Guadeloupe, Juan de Nova Island, Marti... ... 200 nm Territorial sea: 12 nm Boundary disputes: none; territorial claim in Antarctica (Ross Dependency) Climate: temperate with sharp regional contr... ...ion; maritime disputes with Sweden, Norway; has made no territorial claim in Antarctica (but has reserved the right to do so) and does not recognize t... ...ntal shelf dispute involving Denmark, Iceland, Ireland; territorial claim in Antarctica (British Antarctic Territory) Climate: temperate; moderated by...
...old fridge has a small freezer section. You know what they look like; the Antarctic in winter, more ice than food, which in my case is full of pre-c... ...the blinkers open.” I’m trembling as though I’m sitting butt naked at the Antarctic. “First things first…” Steven said. “This is your house! I wouldn... ...ll get rid of the sheep, tell him I shot the dog, sell up and move to the Antarctic. My day is ruined! Michael asks how many sheep I have done. I sh...
...oscopic fuctuations” on geographic coordinates (by materials of Arctic and Antarctic expeditions). Biophysics, 2003, v. 48(5), 1123–1131. 6. Shnoll S....
...-- Placed in command of a scientific expedition to Otaheite -- In search of an Antarctic continent -- In quest of a northwest passage -- His tragic de... ...ions were successfully made (June 3d), after which he set sail in search of an Antarctic continent, a belief in the existence of which was at that tim... ... savage, not as they approach the equator, but as they are found nearer to the Antarctic circle. Readers of this book cannot fail to notice a striking...
...the world, evaporating into the air and turn into rain and snow that falls on Antarctica… and eventually re-connected back into water molecules in th... ... atmosphere: thus producing an ozone hole over the south pole larger than the Antarctic continent. The last ice age came about from a difference of ...
...Shackleton's most famous expedition was planned to be an attempt to cross Antarctica from the Weddell Sea south of the Atlantic, to the Ross Sea south of the Pacific, by way of the Pole. It set out from London on 1 August 1914, and reached the Weddell Sea on January 10, 1915, where the pack ice clo...
...irst chronometers, pushes his small vessel not merely into the Roaring Forties or the Furious Fifties but becomes the first explorer to penetrate the Antarctic Circle, reaching an incredible Latitude 71 degrees South, just failing to discover Antarctica. (Introduction by Shipley)...
...iot 360. The following lines were stimulated by the account of one of the Antarctic expeditions (I forget which, but I think one of Shackleton’s): it...
...ivide the waters into five great portions: the Arctic or Frozen Ocean, the Antarctic, or Frozen Ocean, the Indian, the Atlantic, and the Pacific Ocean... ...double the Cape of Good Hope, then Cape Horn, and finally go as far as the Antarctic pole? Would he come back at last to the Pacific, where his Nautil... ... point had hitherto failed. Again, the season was far advanced, for in the Antarctic regions the 13th of March corresponds with the 13th of September ... ...he 16th of March the Nautilus, following the fifty-fifth meridian, cut the Antarctic polar circle. Ice surrounded us on all sides, and closed the hori... ...s; and I had no doubt that he had already ventured into the midst of these Antarctic seas before. On the 16th of March, how- ever, the ice-fields abso... ...º 30' long. and 67º 39' of S. lat. We had advanced one degree more in this Antarctic region. Of the liquid surface of the sea there was no longer a gl... ...ress a gesture of incredulity. “Yes,” replied the Captain, coldly, “to the Antarctic pole—to that unknown point from whence springs every meridian of ... ...e imprisoned waters; they only found there a passage to take them from the Antarctic Ocean to the open polar sea. Our pace was rapid; we could feel it... ...in the North Atlantic. From this fact he has drawn the conclusion that the Antarctic Circle encloses considerable continents, as icebergs cannot form ...
...owed by a profound si- lence, there crept out into the cold, cruel dawn of Antarctic regions, from various hiding-places, over the deck of that dis- m...
..., and black rounding eyes— for an Indian, Oriental in their largeness, but Antarctic in their glittering expression—all this sufficiently proclaimed h... ...atross I ever saw. It was during a prolonged gale, in waters hard upon the Antarctic seas. From my forenoon watch below, I ascended to the overclouded... ... I have frequently seen, but never with such emotions as when I beheld the Antarctic fowl. But how had the mystic thing been caught? Whisper it not, a... ...xed trance of whiteness. Not so the sailor, behold- ing the scenery of the Antarctic seas; where at times, by some infernal trick of legerdemain in th... ... the bright points that first defined him to me. And beneath the effulgent Antarctic skies I have boarded the Argo-Navis, and joined the chase against...
... and black rounding eyes — for an Indian, Oriental in their largeness, but Antarctic in their glittering expression — all this sufficiently proclaimed ... ...atross I ever saw. It was during a prolonged gale, in waters hard upon the Antarctic seas. From my forenoon watch below, I ascended to the overclouded... ... I have frequently seen, but never with such emotions as when I beheld the Antarctic fowl. But how had the mystic thing been caught? Whisper it not, a... ... fixed trance of whiteness. Not so the sailor, beholding the scenery of the Antarctic seas; where at times, by some infernal trick of legerde main in ... ...of the bright points that first defined him to me. And beneath the effulgent Antarctic skies I have boarded the Argo Navis, and joined the chase against...
...oup of men indifferent to all this struggle, who were land- ing amidst the Antarctic wilderness, held his attention; and then his eyes went westward t...
... to the poles of the earth. The limitless mineral wealth of the Arctic and Antarctic circles was still buried beneath vast accumulations of immemorial...
...miles of sandy desert in Africa and Asia set apart; much of the Arctic and Antarctic circles; vast areas of moun- tain land and frozen marsh; secluded...
... Victory! Victory! Earth’s remotest shore, Regions which groan beneath the Antarctic stars, The green lands cradled in the roar Of western waves, and ... ...aven, _425 Which rain could never bend, or whirl-blast shake, With the Antarctic constellations paven, Canopus and his crew, lay the Austral lake—...
...art of it where Villegaignon landed,—[At Brazil, in 1557.]—which he called Antarctic France. This discovery of so vast a country seems to be of very g...
...nt, more particularly in regard to that portion of it which related to the Antarctic Ocean, was Mr. Poe, lately editor of the “Southern Literary Messe... ...thermometer being at thirty-six. In January, 1773, the vessels crossed the Antarctic circle, but did not succeed in penetrating much farther; for upon... ...d to the northward. In the November following he renewed his search in the Antarctic. In latitude 59 degrees 40' he met with a strong cur- rent settin... ...be apprehended, we steered a little to the southward, until we crossed the Antarctic circle, and were in latitude 69 degrees 15' E. In this latitude t... ...grees 27' easterly, per azimuth.... I have several times passed within the Antarctic circle, on different meridians, and have uniformly found the temp... ...voyage of the Jane, nearly three hundred degrees of longitude in which the Antarctic circle had not been crossed at all. Of course a wide field lay be... ...titude 69 degrees 10' S, longi- tude 42 degrees 20' W , having crossed the Antarctic circle. V ery little ice was to be seen to the southward, althoug... ...here, per azimuth, was less than it had been previously to our passing the Antarctic circle. January 12.—Our passage to the south again looked doubt- ... ...o overtake us. CHAPTER 25 WE NOW FOUND ourselves in the wide and deso late Antarctic Ocean, in a latitude exceeding eighty-four degrees, in a frail ca...
...ummits of distant mountain-ranges, and at distant points in the arctic and antarctic re- gions; and secondly (in the following chapter), the wide dist... ...tated with admirable clearness by Dr. Hooker in his botanical works on the antarctic regions. These cannot be here discussed. I will only say that as ... ...and warmer period, before the commencement of the Glacial period, when the antarctic lands, now covered with ice, supported a highly peculiar and isol... ...y stocked from a nearly intermediate though distant point, namely from the antarctic islands, when they were clothed with veg- etation, before the com... ...hicker fur in cold climates; blind, in caves; extinct, of Australia Anomma Antarctic islands, ancient flora of Antirrhinum Ants attending aphides; sla... ...Australian plants; on relations of flora of South America; on flora of the Antarctic lands; on the plants of the Galapagos Hooks on bamboos; to seeds ...
...ird of another closely allied genus, Chionis alba, is an inhabitant of the antarctic regions; it feeds on sea- weed and shells on the tidal rocks. Alt... ... The only quadruped native to the island*; is a large wolf like fox (Canis antarcticus), which is common to both Eas and West Falkland. I have no doub... ...r. The rock-goose, so called from living exclusively on th sea-beach (Anas antarctica), is common both here and o the west coast of America, as far no... ...Icebergs formed — Transportal of Boulders — Climate and Productions of the Antarctic Islands — Preservation of Frozen Car- casses —Recapitulation. IN ... ...w descent of the glaciers, and on the zone of perpetual congelation in the antarctic islands, may be passed over by any one not interested in these cu... ...ape of Good Hope, nor in Australia.* On the Climate and Productions of the Antarctic Islands. — Considering the rankness of the vegeta- tion in Tierra... ... nal, vol. ix. p. 528) of a gigantic boulder embedded in an iceberg in the Antarctic Ocean, almost certainly one hundred miles dis- tant from any land... ...ssage in a pamphlet by Mr. Couthouy, one of the natu- ralists in the great Antarctic Expedition of the United States: — “Having personally examined a ...
...parison for the division of a wedded twain is correct. She was Arctic, and Antarctic he had to be, perforce of the distance she put between them. A re...
...he planet fall, And that is all. In a review of Sir James Clark Ross’s Antarctic Voyage of Discovery, there is a passage which shows how far a bod...
...med upon ten thousand hills; and there were innumerable contribu- tions to antarctic journals almost as good (but not quite) as our own. Even within o...
...see the Lybian, Arabian, and Asiatic deserts, I see huge dreadful Arctic and Antarctic icebergs, I see the superior oceans and the inferior ones, the ...
... by means of this blest Pantagruelion, the Arc- tic people looked upon the Antarctic, scoured the Atlantic Ocean, passed the tropics, pushed through t...