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An Antarctic Mystery: Original Text

An Antarctic Mystery: Original Text

Verne, Jules

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Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction

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ISBN13: 9798667219903
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 18 2020
Pages: 214
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
No doubt the following narrative will be received with entire incredulity, but I think it wellthat the public should be put in possession of the facts narrated in An Antarctic Mystery. Thepublic is free to believe them or not, at its good pleasure.No more appropriate scene for the wonderful and terrible adventures which I am about torelate could be imagined than the Desolation Islands, so called, in 1779, by Captain Cook. I livedthere for several weeks, and I can affirm, on the evidence of my own eyes and my ownexperience, that the famous English explorer and navigator was happily inspired when he gavethe islands that significant name.Geographical nomenclature, however, insists on the name of Kerguelen, which is generallyadopted for the group which lies in 49 45' south latitude, and 69 6' east longitude. This is just, because in 1772, Baron Kerguelen, a Frenchman, was the first to discover those islands in thesouthern part of the Indian Ocean. Indeed, the commander of the squadron on that voyagebelieved that he had found a new continent on the limit of the Antarctic seas, but in the courseof a second expedition he recognized his error. There was only an archipelago. I may bebelieved when I assert that Desolation Islands is the only suitable name for this group of threehundred isles or islets in the midst of the vast expanse of ocean, which is constantly disturbedby austral storms.Nevertheless, the group is inhabited, and the number of Europeans and Americans whoformed the nucleus of the Kerguelen population at the date of the 2nd of August, 1839, hadbeen augmented for two months past by a unit in my person. Just then I was waiting for anopportunity of leaving the place, having completed the geological and mineralogical studieswhich had brought me to the group in general and to Christmas Harbour in particular.Christmas Harbour belongs to the most important islet of the archipelago, one that is abouthalf as large as Corsica. It is safe, and easy, and free of access. Your ship may ride securely atsingle anchor in its waters, while the bay remains free from ice.

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