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My Attainment of the Pole Volume 3; Being the Record of the Expedition That First Reached the Boreal Center, 1907-1909, with the Final Summary of the Polar Controversy

My Attainment of the Pole Volume 3; Being the Record of the Expedition That First Reached the Boreal Center, 1907-1909, with the Final Summary of the Polar Controversy


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ...of drift snow offered just the right kind of material from which to cut building blocks. While a shelter was thus being walled, I moved about constantly to read my instruments and to study carefully the local environment. In a geographic sense we had now arrived at a point where all meridians meet. The longitude, therefore, was zero. Time was a negative problem. There being no longitude, there can be no time. The hour lines of Greenwich, of New York, of Peking, and of all the world here run together. Figuratively, if this position is the pin-point of the earth's axis, it is possible to have all meridians under one foot, and therefore it should be possible to step from midnight to midday, from the time of San Francisco to that of Paris, from one side of the globe to the other, as time is measured. Here there is but one day and but one night in each year, but the night of six monhs is relieved by about one hundred days of continuous twilight. Geographically, there was here but one direction. It was south on every line of the dial of longitude--north, east and west had vanished. We had reached a point where true direction became a paradox and a puzzle. It was south before us, south behind us, and south on every side. But the compass, pointing to the magnetic Pole along the ninety WHERE ALL MERIDIANS MEET AND EVERY DIRECTION IS SOUTH The Pivotal Point on which the earth turns. seventh meridian, was as useful as ever. (To avoid statements easily misunderstood, all our directions about the Pole will be given as taken from the compass, and without reference to the geographer's anomaly of its being south in every direction.) My firtt noon observations gave the following result, which is copied from the original paper, as it was written at the Pole and reproduced ph...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781236328533
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 160
  • Spine Width: 9 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1236328531
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 299 gr


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