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XXI. Description of some remarkable Atmospheric Reflections and Refractions, observed in the Greenland Sea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 January 2013

William Scoresby Esq. jun.
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Extract

During the summer of the present year (1820), while navigating with the ship Baffin, the icy sea in the immediate neighbourhood of West Greenland (the east side), several extremely curious appearances of distant objects, produced by the reflective and refractive properties of the atmosphere, were observed.

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Research Article
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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , 1823 , pp. 299 - 305
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1823

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