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...
5 maps on one sheet. From Encyclopaedia Britannica, ninth ed., vol. XIX, Plate 2. Components: North circumpolar chart -- South circumpolar chart -- [Arctic islands of Canada and west coast of Greenland] -- [Smith Sound region] -- [Spitzbergen and...
Includes key to geographic features. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Ancillary maps: Nowaja Semlja -- Spitzbergen und die Baren Insel -- Kuste von Ost-Gronland -- Nach den den aufnalmen der zweiten Deutschen Nord-Pol-Expedit. 1869-1870...
Polar projection. Illustrated with hunting scenes and land and sea animals. Shows incomplete coastlines of Baffin Bay, Greenland, Spitzbergen, other coastlines in the arctic regions. Includes notes regarding exploration and discovery. Likely...
Shows Hudsons Bay, Baffins Bay, the east coast of Canada including Newfoundland, Iceland, Arctic Europe and Arctic Asia. Shows Greenland as being attached to Canadian Arctic, and includes "Bas" south of Iceland. Incomplete representation of...
Shows routes of Davis, Baffin, Franklin, McClure, Collinson, Kane, Second German Expedition, Peary, Amundsen, Ericsen, Rasmussen, De Quervain, Koch, MacMillan, Steffansson, Ekblaw, Hall, Nares, Nordenskjold, DeLong, Nansen, and Duke of Abruzzi. ...
Shows routes of various explorers. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights; depths shown by soundings. From: The Century atlas of the world. Insets: Spitzbergen -- Smith Sound and Robeson Channel -- Franz Josef Land. "No. 3." Text on verso...
Title from monument text. "Carl Benjamin Eielson enlisted in the Air Service of the United States Army on January 17, 1917. In 1923 he piloted the first airplane in Alaska and in 1924 he flew the first government mail plane in that territory. He...