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Image from page 458 of "Scottish geographical magazine" (1885) door Internet Archive Book Images

<b>Identifier</b>: scottishgeograph21scotuoft <b>Title</b>: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidscottishgeograph21scotuoft">Scottish geographical magazine</a> <b>Year</b>: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookyear1885">1885</a> (<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookdecade1880">1880s</a>) <b>Authors</b>: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookauthorScottish_Geographical_Society">Scottish Geographical Society</a> <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookauthorRoyal_Scottish_Geographical_Society">Royal Scottish Geographical Society</a> <b>Subjects</b>: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksubjectGeography">Geography</a> <b>Publisher</b>: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookpublisherEdinburgh__Royal_Scottish_Geographical_Society">Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Geographical Society</a> <b>Contributing Library</b>: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookcontributorRobarts___University_of_Toronto">Robarts - University of Toronto</a> <b>Digitizing Sponsor</b>: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksponsorUniversity_of_Toronto">University of Toronto</a> <b>View Book Page</b>: <a href="https://archive.org/stream/scottishgeograph21scotuoft/scottishgeograph21scotuoft#page/n458/mode/1up" rel="nofollow">Book Viewer</a> <b>About This Book</b>: <a href="https://archive.org/details/scottishgeograph21scotuoft" rel="nofollow">Catalog Entry</a> <b>View All Images</b>: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidscottishgeograph21scotuoft">All Images From Book</a> Click here to <a href="https://archive.org/stream/scottishgeograph21scotuoft/scottishgeograph21scotuoft#page/n458/mode/1up" rel="nofollow"><b>view book online</b></a> to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. <b>Text Appearing Before Image:</b> <i>Africa Pilot. Pt. ii., Hydrographic Office, London, p. 200. ■* This plan, I am informed, is taken from Mouillage de Vile Gough. Leve en 1813 parM. M. Richardson et Fitz-Maurice de la Marine Royale Anglaise. The original publication1 have not seen. SOME RESULTS OF SCOTTISH NATIONAL ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION. 433 a party of five sealers on Gough Island while she went further afield.They appear to have had little success, and remained there, with someadditional men landed in August 1888, until January 1889 in the hopeof increasing their catch. Their landing-place was also the mouth ofthe glen. This visit is of great interest, as one of the men, the secondmate, George Comer, had evidently some taste for scientific pursuitsbeyond the general curio-hunting tendencies of idle average sailor, andhe not only made a small collection of bird-skins and eggs, but kept ameteorological log during his whole stay on the island from August1888 to January 1889. Comers general diary contains much interest-</i> <b>Text Appearing After Image:</b> <i>Fig. 9.—Gough Island, North-east point looking NNW. Church Rock in foreground. ing information about Gough Island.1 During the fifteen months thatthe Francis Alleyris party spent on the island they seem to have killed311 seals (Arcfocephalus australis), and only one sea-elephant (Macrorhimtsleoninus). Whales are mentioned, but no indication of the kind; manybirds are recorded, and the men apparently lived largely on penguineggs; mice even then were numerous, and overran the island. Potatoesgrowing wild, but quite eatable, were found in a place where they landed,at which there used to be a camp of sealers years ago. This may bethe cove Morrell refers to on the north side. The weather, from 1 On Some Birds and Eggs collected by Mr. Geo. Comer at Gough Island, Kerguelen andSouth Georgia, etc., by G. E. Verrill. Trans. Conn. Acad., vol. ix., pt. ii. (March 1895).To this paper I am indebted for the observations of Mr. Comer on Gough Island. VOL. XXI. 2 I 434: SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL MAGAZI</i> <b>Note About Images</b> <i>Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.</i>
Arche des Kerguelen is een toeristische attractie, een van de Natural arches in Port-aux-Français , Franse Gebieden in de zuidelijke Indische Oceaan . Lees verder
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