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MY principal object in this evening's lecture is to direct your attention to some of the peculiarities in the physical conditions of the Antarctic regions, and to put you in a better position to contrast these with the more generally known phenomena of the Arctic; and it seems specially appropriate to allow our thoughts to travel for an hour towards that other fortress of the Ice King, a fortress apparently even more hopelessly impregnable, now while the pulse of the nation is still throbbing in sympathy with the brave little band who have just added another chapter to a long and terrible record of daring and self-sacrifice, and have succeeded in the face of almost unparalleled hardships in once more planting the Union-Jack nearest to the North Pole. The propriety is all the greater seeing that Capt. Nares, the gallant leader of the northern explorers, is also the last of the few navigators who have crossed the Antarctic Circle.
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THOMSON, C. On the Conditions of The Antarctic 1 . Nature 15, 104–106 (1876). https://doi.org/10.1038/015104a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/015104a0