Cape Farewell is a series of expeditions into the Arctic, through a previously icebound but now passable route. |
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He starts in Ancient Egypt and travels in time through 11 tableaux, ending in the icebound twilight of humanity. |
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Enceladus and Europa, for instance, are two icebound moons in the local solar system with surface temperatures hundreds of degrees below zero. |
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In the spring Lake Laberge remained icebound for several week after the river opened. |
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The lake freezes only near the land, and its harbours are icebound from mid-December to mid-April. |
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The death toll was reported at 42, though newspaper reports speculated that some bodies would never be recovered from the icebound river. |
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Cold northern winters ensured that the river was icebound for at least seven months of the year. |
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During the icebound 1993-94 winter season, some remains of autumn's leaves persisted under the blanket of ice until spring. |
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The message revealed that both ships had been icebound for approximately one and half years. |
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A sturdy ship built for breaking a passage through icebound waters. |
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Both voyages ended icebound in the Kara Sea. |
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They can also become icebound, and sometimes the wind blows so strongly no sailing vessel can make headway against it. |
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Weapons for hunting and fishing, tools for cutting and sawing the ice, and dynamite and special anchors to free icebound vessels were all taken aboard. |
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One theory of what happened next, based on examples of other icebound ships found thousands of kilometres from their last sightings, is that Erebus and Terror drifted southwest of the island with the ice floes and icebergs. |
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In April 1895 the Norwegian explorers Fridtjof Nansen and Hjalmar Johansen struck out for the Pole on skis after leaving Nansen's icebound ship Fram. |
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