1969/01/01 by Gerd Wendler, Wendler, G.
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Computer Science · #Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics #Cryospheric studies and observations #Advanced Mathematical Modeling in Engineering
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In einem Briefe des Bischofs von Bergen, Haakon, aus dem Jahre 1341, knnen wir les~n: "ad Groenlandiam per mare non minus temp estuosissimum quam Iongissimum . ..11 .(DIPl.Norv.Bd, V, NI'.152).-Um die Eisverhltnisse in den Polarregionen zu veranschauhchen, fhrt man oft die bekannte Siel1e aus dem S p e c u I u m Re g a l e aus dem Jahre von etwa 1250 vor: "As soon as one has passed over the deepest part of the ocean, he wil1 encounter such masses of ice in the sea that I know no equai of it anywhere else in all the earth . . .They ... extend so far out from the land that it may mean a journey of foul' days 01' more to travel across.There is more ice to