Three Years of Arctic Service: An Account of the Lady Franklin Expedition of 1881-84 and the Attainment of the Farthest North - Couverture souple

Greely, Adolphus Washington 1844-1935

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ISBN 10 : 1371639612 ISBN 13 : 9781371639617

Editeur : Wentworth Press, 2016

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Présentation de l'éditeur

It is ten years to-day since the survivors of the Lady Franklin Expedition were rescued, but interest in the story of their achievements and sufferings has not materially abated. The amount and character of their field and scientific work have received international reco- nition. Not only did the party attain the highest North of all time, which yet remains unsurpassed, but it determined the insularity of Greenland and discovered and traced scores of miles to the northward, the unknown shores of a new land. In physical science its work stands unique, as the only complete set of astronomical, magnetic, meteorological, pendulum, and tidal observations ever made in a very high latitude. These observations have enabled scientists to determine that the diurnal inequality of the tidal-wave conforms at Lady Franklin Bay to the sidereal day and to calculate for the Smith Sound region the secular variation of magnetic declination for past years, while, in the words of an acknowledged authority, by a series of pendulum observations, .. .far the best that have ever been made within the arctic circle, .. .its determination of gravity has been signally successful.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wentworth Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1371639612
• ISBN 13: 9781371639617
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 766
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