III. Observations on the temperature of the Arctic Sea in the neighbourhood of Spitzbergen

• Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Royal Society 1873
• Subjects: Arctic; Greenland; Norway; The Portal; Spitzbergen
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspl.1872.0019; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspl.1872.0019

While almost every other nation is making its effort to promote scientific discoveries in the high latitudes of the north, England remains inactive. My object in addressing the following remarks to the Royal Society is to bring to its notice the voyages of the ‘Samson’ yacht, and to direct attention to some points on the temperature of the Arctic Sea, to which access is obtained through the broadest gateway to the north, i. e . that between Greenland and Norway, the portal of which is guarded by Spitzbergen. In the western portion, along the coast of Greenland, it is more or less blocked with ice, and the water is cold.