With an appendix containing an historical account of the Dutch, English, and American whale fisheries; some important observations on the variation of the compass, &c.; and some extracts from Mr. Scoresby's paper on "Polar...
Shows north coast of Russia with Nova Zemla, Norway, Sweden and Spitsbergen (shown as Greenland on map). From John Seller's The English Pilot, 1671. Hand colored. Illustrated with ships, fanciful creatures, compass rose and decorative cartouche....
Title from caption. On May 11, 1926, the Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen, accompanied by the American Lincoln Ellsworth, the Italian Umberto Nobile (who had constructed the vessel and flew it), the pilot Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, who...
Title taken from verso. Holiday card by Arthur Hansin Eide reads: "With the best of holiday wishes." From verso of original card: "S.S. Maude arriving in Nome from Norway - east. Roald Amundsen was trying to sail north to the pole - 1920 - in...
Sir G. Hubert Wilkins and Carl Ben Eielson landing in Barrow, Alaska, on their first circumpolar flight, April 15, 1928. This flight went from Barrow, Alaska, to Spitsbergen, Norway, a distance of 2500 miles. From verso: "At Barrow. On their first...