Through the first Antarctic night, 1898-1899 : $b a narrative of the voyage of the "Belgica" among newly discovered lands and over an unknown sea about the south poleCook, Frederick Albert
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Through the first Antarctic night, 1898-1899 : $b a narrative of the voyage of the "Belgica" among newly discovered lands and over an unknown sea about the south pole
Cook, Frederick Albert
Antarctica; Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration -- Belgian; Belgica (Ship); Voyages and travels
Sunrise and Sunset together over the Eastern Shore of Belgica
Strait „ 137
View Eastward from Neumayer Channel (Part of Wiencke
Island--Sierre Du Fief in the Background) „ 138
Brooklyn Island „ 138
Lemaire Channel--Wandel Island „ 143
Cape Cloos „ 143
Ascending Icy Mountains „ 144
An Encampment „ 144
Cape Eivind Astrup--Northern Point of Wiencke Island „ 153
Cape Renard, Dancoland „ 154
Stratified Tabular Iceberg, off Cape Rasmussen, to the lee
of which the _Belgica_ rested during the night of Feb. 12 „ 159
Iceberg in Belgica Strait with a Great Tunnel through it „ 159
One of the Wauwermans Islands „ 160
Sophie Rocks, Dancoland „ 160
Snowy Petrel 161
Midnight at Midsummer over the Antarctic Mainland
(_colour_) _facing_ 166
The Belgica Pressing Southward through the Drift-Ice „ 169
Iceberg off Cape Tuxen „ 169
Penguins on a Sea-worn Iceberg resembling a Whale „ 170
A Tabular Iceberg, seen at the Pack-edge in the South Pacific
(about 200 feet high) „ 175
Bird’s-eye View of the Pack-ice near the Outer Edge „ 176
Lecointe Making Observations. The Nautical Observatory „ 185
Dobrowolski Measuring the Depth of the Snow-Fall „ 185
Hauling Snow to Augment the Water-Supply „ 186
Making Soundings „ 186
The Sailor’s Recreation „ 191
Bow of the _Belgica_ after a Collision with an Iceberg „ 191
The Hummocks of a Pressure-Angle „ 192
Cestrugi „ 192
A Lake. The Sporting Place of Whales, Seals and Penguins „ 201
Moonlight Photograph of the _Belgica_, May 20, 1898 „ 201
Moss and Lichens „ 202
Moon Faces 204
Moon Faces (_continued_) 205
M. van Rysselberghe at the Condenser, which was converted
into a Snow Melter _facing_ 207
Racovitza at the Microscope „ 208
Arctowski in the Laboratory „ 208
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