The Universal Geography Earth And Its Inhabitants volume 5 Northeastern Atlan
The Universal Geography Earth And Its Inhabitants volume 5 Northeastern Atlan
Elise Reclus
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— Wiche's Land. Scale 1 : 3, 700, 000. S K- ; _ Sea covered with ice and open, summer of 1S72. Several occasions Captain Palander failed to make more than half a mile a day in his sledges. III. — 'WICHE'S LAND AND GILES LAND. East of Spitzbergen the Arctic Ocean is not so free of land as in the north. In this direction a long chain of lofty mountains is visible on clear days some 70 or 80 miles off, belonging to Wiche's Land, so named in 1617 in honour of the merchant, Richard Wiche, or Wyche, ...by the English whalers, who were the first to sight this island. After a lapse of two centuries and a half another Englishman again sighted the island in 1864, and in 1870 Heuglin and Zeil, thinking its snowy crests lay north of the position indicated for Wiche's Land, renamed it after their sovereign, Charles of Wiirttemberg. The Swedish explorers had, in their turn, named one of its mountains, seen by them, " Swedish Headland, " so that 180 TEE EUROPEAN ISLANDS OF THE ARCTIC OCEAN. National rivalries, combined with the confused reports of navigators, have rendered the charts very uncertain.
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