. The earth and its inhabitants .. . ^»i ^^M Land- so Miles. Sea covered with ice and open, summer of 18^2. several occasions Captain Palander failed to mate more than half a mile a day in his sledges. III.âMICHES LAND A^'D GILES LAXD. East of Spitzbergen the Arctic Ocean is not so free of land as in the north. In this direction a long chain of lofty mountains is visible on clear days some « 0 or 80 miles off, belonging to Wiche's Land, so named in 1617 in honour of the merchant, Richard "SViche, or TVyche, by the English whalers, who were the first to sight this island. After a lapse o
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . ^»i ^^M Land- so Miles. Sea covered with ice and open, summer of 18^2. several occasions Captain Palander failed to mate more than half a mile a day in his sledges. III.âMICHES LAND A^'D GILES LAXD. East of Spitzbergen the Arctic Ocean is not so free of land as in the north. In this direction a long chain of lofty mountains is visible on clear days some « 0 or 80 miles off, belonging to Wiche's Land, so named in 1617 in honour of the merchant, Richard "SViche, or TVyche, by the English whalers, who were the first to sight this island. After a lapse of two centuries and a half another Englishman again sighted the island in 1864, and in 1870 Heuglin and Zeil, thinking its snowy crests lay north of the position indicated for Wiche's Land, renamed it after their sovereign, Charles of 'Wiirttemberg. The Swedish explorers had, in their turn, named one of its mountains, seen by them, " Swedish Headland," so that
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