New Lands within the Arctic Circle

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Author

Payer, Julius, 1841-1915

Title

New lands within the Arctic circle Narrative of the discoveries of the Austrian ship "Tegetthoff" in the years 1872-1874

Credits

Produced by Albert László, Greg Bergquist and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

G: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation

Subject

Admiral Tegetthoff (Ship)

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 60258

Release Date

September 7, 2019

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.NEW LANDS WITHIN THE ARCTIC CIRCLE.
2. 2.AUTHOR’S PREFACE.
3. 3.PRELIMINARY NOTICE BY THE TRANSLATOR.
4. 4.CONTENTS.
5. 5.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
6. 6.AUSTRIAN ARCTIC VOYAGES. INTRODUCTION. — CHAPTER I. THE FROZEN OCEAN. — CHAPTER II. NAVIGATION IN THE FROZEN OCEAN. — CHAPTER III. THE PENETRATION OF THE REGIONS WITHIN THE POLAR CIRCLE; THE PERIOD OF THE NORTH-WEST AND NORTH-EAST PASSAGES. — CHAPTER IV. THE INNER POLAR SEA. — CHAPTER V. THE FUTURE OF THE POLAR QUESTION. — CHAPTER VI. POLAR EQUIPMENTS.
7. 7.PIONEER VOYAGE OF ISBJÖRN. — THE PIONEER VOYAGE OF THE “ISBJÖRN.”
8. 8.VOYAGE OF THE “TEGETTHOFF.” — CHAPTER I. FROM BREMERHAVEN TO TROMSOE. — CHAPTER II. ON THE FROZEN OCEAN. — CHAPTER III. DRIFTING IN THE NOVAYA ZEMLYA SEAS. — CHAPTER IV. THE “TEGETTHOFF” FAST BESET IN THE ICE. — CHAPTER V. OUR FIRST WINTER (1872) IN THE ICE. — CHAPTER VI. LIFE ON BOARD THE “TEGETTHOFF.” — CHAPTER VII. ICE-PRESSURES. — CHAPTER VIII. THE WANE OF THE LONG POLAR NIGHT. — CHAPTER IX. THE RETURN OF LIGHT.—THE SPRING OF 1873. — CHAPTER X. THE SUMMER OF 1873. — CHAPTER XI. NEW LANDS. — CHAPTER XII. THE AUTUMN OF 1873.—THE STRANGE LAND VISITED. — CHAPTER XIII. OUR SECOND WINTER IN THE ICE. — CHAPTER XIV. SUNRISE OF 1874. — CHAPTER XV. THE AURORA.
9. 9.THE EXPLORATION OF KAISER FRANZ-JOSEF LAND. — CHAPTER I. THE EXPLORATION OF KAISER FRANZ-JOSEF LAND RESOLVED ON. — CHAPTER II. OF SLEDGE TRAVELLING IN GENERAL. — CHAPTER III. THE EQUIPMENT OF A SLEDGE EXPEDITION. — CHAPTER IV. THE FIRST SLEDGE JOURNEY — CHAPTER V. THE COLD. — CHAPTER VI. A GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF KAISER FRANZ-JOSEF LAND. — CHAPTER VII. THE SECOND SLEDGE EXPEDITION.—AUSTRIA SOUND. — CHAPTER VIII. IN THE EXTREME NORTH. — CHAPTER IX. THE RETURN TO THE SHIP. — CHAPTER X. THE THIRD SLEDGE JOURNEY.
10. 10.“TEGETTHOFF” ABANDONED: RETURN TO EUROPE. — CHAPTER I. LAST DAYS ON THE “TEGETTHOFF.” — CHAPTER II. ON THE FROZEN SEA. — CHAPTER III. ON THE OPEN SEA.
11. 11.APPENDIX. — I. METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS. — II. DIRECTION AND FORCE OF THE WIND, FROM OBSERVATIONS ON BOARD THE “TEGETTHOFF.”
12. 12.FOOTNOTES
13. 13.INDEX.

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