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Lying twenty miles clear of the main group of islands , Foula really was a place for a ship like the Oceanic to ... He was confident they would see the towering cliffs of the island long before they were in any danger , and even the ...
Lying twenty miles clear of the main group of islands , Foula really was a place for a ship like the Oceanic to ... He was confident they would see the towering cliffs of the island long before they were in any danger , and even the ...
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So they crossed Peel Sound ( without realising it was Peel Sound ) and then the hazy land beyond which was actually Prince of Wales Island , already explored by Ommanney and Osborn . Two months later they recrossed it to regain their ...
So they crossed Peel Sound ( without realising it was Peel Sound ) and then the hazy land beyond which was actually Prince of Wales Island , already explored by Ommanney and Osborn . Two months later they recrossed it to regain their ...
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Having wintered in 1846-47 [ a slip for 1845-46 ] at Beechey Island , in lat . 74 43 28N : long 91 39 15W . , after having ascended Wellington Channel to lat . 77 , and returned by the west side of Cornwallis Island .
Having wintered in 1846-47 [ a slip for 1845-46 ] at Beechey Island , in lat . 74 43 28N : long 91 39 15W . , after having ascended Wellington Channel to lat . 77 , and returned by the west side of Cornwallis Island .
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