America in Spitsbergen: The Romance of an Arctic Coal-mine, with an Introduction Relating the History and Describing the Land and the Flora and Fauna of Spitsbergen, Volume 1Marshall Jones Company, 1922 - Coal mines and mining A detailed history of the Arctic Coal Co. mine at Longyear City in Adveat Bay, 1905-16 with an introductory section containing useful information about west Spitsbergen. (AB 4042). |
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Advent Bay airship American Anker archipelago Arctic Coal Company Ayer and Longyear balloon Bear Island beds Bell Sound bergen birds boat Burrall called camp Cape Captain Naess century claims coal coast Coles Bay covered crew diabase discovered Dutch east eight English enterprise expedition fifty Foreland formation fossils four German glacier Green Harbor Greenland gulls Hammerfest Hecla Hook Herre hundred feet Ice Fjord Iceland iron Jeldness King's Bay Kristiania kroner land limestone meters miles mining mountains Munroe Muscovy Company Nordenskjöld northern Norway Norwegian Novaya Zemlya Polar bear Prince Charles Foreland reached region reindeer rock Russian sailed sandstone says scientific Scoresby seals seam seemed ship shore side Sir Martin sledges Smeerenburg snow Spits Spitsbergen steamer stone strata summer Swedish thousand tion Tromsø Trondhjem Trondhjem-Spitsbergen Vadsø valley Varangerfjord vessel visited voyage walrus Wellman whales wind winter
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Page 68 - Yachting in the Arctic Seas; or, Notes of Five Voyages of Sport and Discovery in the Neighbourhood of Spitzbergen and Novaya Zemlya. By JAMES LAMONT, FRGS With numerous full-page Illustrations by Dr. LIVESAY.
Page 45 - ... the whole contrasted by a cloudless canopy of deepest azure, and enlightened by the rays of a blazing sun, and the effect aided by a feeling of danger, seated as we were on the pinnacle of a rock almost surrounded by tremendous precipices, — all united to constitute a picture singularly sublime.
Page 149 - ... with the calmness of the ocean, constitute a picture both novel and magnificent. There is, indeed, a kind of majesty, not to be conveyed in words, in these extraordinary accumulations of snow and ice in the valleys, and in the rocks above rocks, and peaks above peaks, in the mountain groups, seen rising above the ordinary elevation of the clouds, and terminating occasionally in crests of everlasting snow, especially when you approach the shore under shelter of the impenetrable density of a summer...
Page 93 - Daily it is forced home on the mind of the geologist, that nothing, not even the wind that blows, is so unstable as the level of the crust of this earth.
Page 45 - The prospect was most extensive and grand. A fine sheltered bay was seen to the east of us, an arm of the same on the north-east, and the sea, whose glassy surface was unruffled by a breeze, formed an immense expanse on the west ; the icebergs rearing their proud crests almost to the tops of mountains between which they were lodged, and defying the power of the solar beams, were scattered in various directions about the sea-coast and in the adjoining bays. Beds of snow and ice filling extensive hollows,...
Page 164 - THERE is, as every schoolboy knows in this scientific age, a very close chemical relation between coal and diamonds. It is the reason, I believe, why some people allude to coal as "black diamonds." Both these commodities represent wealth; but coal is a much less portable form of property. There is, from that point of view, a deplorable lack of concentration in coal. Now, if a coalmine could be put into one's waistcoat pocket— but it can't! At the same time, there is a fascination in coal, the supreme...
Page 46 - This being loose and soft, we entered upon it without fear, but on reaching the middle of it we came to a surface of solid ice, perhaps a hundred yards across, over which we launched with astonishing velocity, but happily escaped without injury. The men whom we left below viewed this latter movement with astonishment and fear.
Page 124 - If one traces the currents on the map, and follows the Gulf Stream as it flows northward, pouring the warm waters of the Tropic Zone through the broad gateway east of Spitzbergen, and forcing out a return current of cold waters to the west of Spitzbergen...
Page 134 - ... nature will have no vacuum — the pressure of billions of tons, coming from rear, right, left, had jammed, rolled, revolved, uplifted, down-thrust, crunched, crushed, powdered the fragments of floes in a death struggle for mere place to exist. All along that coast, as far as we could see this bright morning, the one spot — the one little rood out of all these millions of acres — where our camp could have been pitched only to be destroyed, was the very spot where it had been pitched. All...
Page 164 - I believe, why some people allude to coal as "black diamonds." Both these commodities represent wealth; but coal is a much less portable form of property. There is, from that point of view, a deplorable lack of concentration in coal. Now, if a coalmine could be put into one's waistcoat pocket — but it can't! At the same time, there is a fascination in coal, the supreme commodity of the age in which we are camped like bewildered travellers in a garish, unrestful hotel. And I suppose those two considerations,...