. Climatic variation in historic and prehistoric time. and in the years 1892—1897 they became a serious danger to navi- gation. Nine years afterwards there occurred a remarkable outburst of drift ice from the Arctic Sea which will be in fresh memory in the Scandinavian countries because it was followed by a general failure of the fisheries of cod, herring etc. along our coasts from Finmarken and Lofoten to the Skagerak and Gattegat. The greater part of the Barentz Sea was covered with pack ice up to May, the ice-border approaching to the Murman- and the Finmark-coasts nearer than ever before.
. Climatic variation in historic and prehistoric time. and in the years 1892—1897 they became a serious danger to navi- gation. Nine years afterwards there occurred a remarkable outburst of drift ice from the Arctic Sea which will be in fresh memory in the Scandinavian countries because it was followed by a general failure of the fisheries of cod, herring etc. along our coasts from Finmarken and Lofoten to the Skagerak and Gattegat. The greater part of the Barentz Sea was covered with pack ice up to May, the ice-border approaching to the Murman- and the Finmark-coasts nearer than ever before. Herds of arctic seals visited these coasts and some specimens of the arctic »white-fish» extended their wander- ings to the Christiania fjord and even entered into the Baltic. The position of the moons orbit was as shown in the following dia- Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Pettersson, Otto. Go?teborg, W. Zachrissons boktr
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