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 . d to the south of Whale Soundthe sandstones are very much less in evidence, therock formations being almost entirely gneissose. The country is really a double peninsula lying be-tween Melville Bay and Kane Basin on the southand nor
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 . d to the south of Whale Soundthe sandstones are very much less in evidence, therock formations being almost entirely gneissose. The country is really a double peninsula lying be-tween Melville Bay and Kane Basin on the southand north respectively, and Smith Sound and thegreat Inland Ice on the west and east respectively,—a peninsula cut nearly in two, near its middle latitude,by the great inlet Whale Sound. Its extent in lati-tude is very nearly 4°, and in longitude 8|-°. 452 Northward over the Great Ice The length of peripheral coast-line from BushnanIsland to the soudiern angle of Humboldt Glacier,measured from headland to headland, is three hundredand fifteen miles. The development of the shores ofthe bays, sounds, and islands will raise this distanceto one thousand miles. Cape York, the bold promontory familiar to everywhaler, which forms the southern limit of this coun-try, is situated in 75° 51 N. Lat and 65° 30 W. Long. From this cape, a concave shore-line of steep bluffs.
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