New Lands Within the Arctic Circle Narrative of the Discoveries of the Austrian
New Lands Within the Arctic Circle Narrative of the Discoveries of the Austrian
Julius Payer
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THE Arctic Sea, in some of its features, forcibly impresses us with its resemblance to the glaciers of the Alps. In both cases, the ice presses from a region, colder and less favoured by climate, towards one warmer and more favoured. In the Alpine glaciers, the movement is from above downwards ; in the Frozen Ocean, the movement is from a higher to a lower geographical latitude. In both cases, the tongues and spurs of the masses of ice formed by the configuration of the land or by currents of t...he sea, terminate, whenever they reach an isothermal curve of altitude or latitude, the mean temperature of which suffices to dissolve them or prevent their formation. Moraines also have their equivalent in the Arctic Sea ; for it is an established fact that icebergs and ice-fields, laden with the debris and rubbish of Arctic lands, deposit these burdens round the outer edge of the Frozen Ocean, and to this process, partially at least, CHAP, iv. ] THE INNER POLAR SEA. 43 the origin of the Newfoundland Banks is ascribed.
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