| Summary: | t686« Gee jraphy.—We are looking >ver historic ice-locked Gape Sabine. Behind us stretch •;*-■■ x~ of Ellesmere Land. Before us are if Baffin Bay. At the east, across >w char equally inhospitable Greenland. Many a stout-hearted explorer has passed the winter here, as these men on the beach are preparing to do, waiting for the short Arctic summer to come and speed him on his quest for the elusive goal of northern explorers—the North Pole. Among Arctic explorers, all of whom doubtless visited this barren haven of the traveler and the whaler, the world knows best Sir Martin Frobisher, Henry Hudson, John Muir and Commodore Peary. Here too, Admiral Schley made his famous rescue of Lieutenant Greely in. 1884. Physiography.—Baffiin Bay is part of the long strait which separates Baffin Land, on the west, from Greenland on the east From the northern end it is connected, first, with the polar sea channels; second, with the straits which flow through the Archipelago to the north-west by narrow channels at the head of Jones Sound; third, it is connected with the more southerly part of the same Archipelago by Lancaster Sound. During the greater part of the year this sea is frozen, I but, while hardly ever free of ic< navigable channels along the coas of June to the end of September, a centre of the whale and seal fif one point a depth ascertained. Refer again to this view when Nature Study, People and Horn there are norma from the beginni The bay is noted ery. At more th &ceeding 1,000 fathoms has be hen considering Transportati inimals. Arctic Explorers—historic Cape Sabine and Baffin Bay (79° N. Lat). Explorateurs arctiques—rhistorique Cape Sabine et la baie de Baffin (79° latitude Nord). Nordfahrer, Vorbereitungen fiir den langen Winter machend—das historische Kap Sabine und die Baffinsbai (79°N. B.). Los exploradores articos preparandose para el largo invierno en el historico Cabo Sabine y Bahia de Baffin (79° N. Lat). Nordpolsresande, forberedande sig for den langa Vin- tern—det historiska Kap Sabine och ...
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