Northward over the great ice : a narrative of life and work along the shores and upon the interior ice-cap of northern Greenland in the years 1886 and 1891-1897, with a description of the little tribe of Smith Sound Eskimos, the most northerly human beings in the world, and an account of the discovery and bringing home of the Saviksue or great Cape York meteorites . 0: :T- V-: * • f ^f . ARCTIC FLOWERS. in a succession of deeply eroded cliffs and steep bluffs,uninterrupted by glaciers, thirteen miles, when it turnsdue east again, and in a series of rounded hills, onwhose rests an
Northward over the great ice : a narrative of life and work along the shores and upon the interior ice-cap of northern Greenland in the years 1886 and 1891-1897, with a description of the little tribe of Smith Sound Eskimos, the most northerly human beings in the world, and an account of the discovery and bringing home of the Saviksue or great Cape York meteorites . 0: :T- V-: * • f ^f . ARCTIC FLOWERS. in a succession of deeply eroded cliffs and steep bluffs,uninterrupted by glaciers, thirteen miles, when it turnsdue east again, and in a series of rounded hills, onwhose rests an ice-cap, reaches eastward tothe mouth of Academy Bay, thirty-five miles fromKanga. Academy Bay is much smaller than Olriks, beingbut about thirteen miles lono- and two miles wide 464 Northward over the Great Ice Cutting into the land at first in a south-easterly direc-tion, it swings due east and terminates at the face ofa large glacier, which is practically the northern armof the one entering the head of Olriks Bay. Thoughthe shores of this bay are bold throughout, there areportions of the north-eastern side where steep valleysgive access to the elevated and extensive rollingplateau lying east of the bay, between it and the ice t>. KAHKOKTAH Form. Red Cliff Peninsula Ice-Cap in Background. cap. The south-west side, on the contrary, from thebold bluff at the entrance, to far up beyond the extrem-ity of the glacier, is a continuous, inaccessible, verticalcliff. From the eastern point of Academy Bay the mainshore of the gulf extends, due east, to the face ofthe great Heilprin Glacier, and then on beside thegreat ice-stream, until the crests of the cliffs disappearunder the white shroud of the Great Ice. From Appendix 465 here on, the eastern and northern sides of the head ofthe gulf are an almost continuous glacier face, six greatice-streams, separated by as many precipitous nunataks,flowing down from the interior ice-cap to discharge anenormous fleet of berg
Size: 1914px × 1306px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, booksubjecteskimos, bookyear1898
