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Birds aren't the only ones that migrate Northwards:
Sverdrup found so many hares around 81 degrees North latitude that one inlet
was called Hare Fiord. There was also enough other game to keep the whole
exploring party well fed with meat.
Captain Beechey saw so many birds on the west coast of Spitzbergen that the
place reverberated with their cries from dawn till dark. The little auk were
so numerous and so close together that sometimes a single shot killed thirty
of them. With sixteen birds to a cubic yard, there were about four million
of them. Rotgers were so numerous as to darken the sky, and their chorus
could be heard for four miles. There were also reindeer and ducks. There
were four varieties of seagulls over the surrounding ocean, plus fish and
amphibious animals, front the huge whale to the minute clio on which it
fees, swallowing perhaps a million with each mouthful.
Franklin saw large numbers of geese migrating to the unknown north, at a
high latitude, indicating land there. He notes that no matter how far north
the explorer goes, he always finds the polar bear ahead of him. No matter
how far north these bears are met, they are always on their way north.
At latitude 82, Kane found butterflies, bees and flies, as well as wolves,
foxes, bears, geese, ducks, water fowls and partridges. A strange fact all
explorers observe is that animals do not migrate south to escape the cold
Arctic winter, but instead go north.
Commander McClure explored Banks Land and found immense quantities of trees
thrown in layers by glacious action, which evidently brought them from the
north. In one ravine lie found a pile of trees closely packed, to a height
of forty feet. While some wood was petrified, much of it was of recent
origin. These trees were found far beyond the latitude where trees grow.
Nansen was puzzled by this driftwood which is continually found along the
Greenland coast. He said that as far north as latitude 86 degrees he found
such driftwood.
Gardner says that it is the unanimous testimony of explorers that "the
further north you go, the more animal life there is, a complete proof that
there is in the far north a great asylum of refuge where every creature can
breed in peace and with plenty of food. And from that region must come also
those evidences of vegetable life that explorers have repeatedly seen, the
red pollen of plants that drifts out on favorable breezes and colors whole
icebergs and glacier sides with a ruddy tinge, those seeds and buds and
branches, and most impressive of all, those representatives of races of
animals that yet live on in the interior, although they have disappeared
from the outside of the earth. (Gardner here refers to mammoths found frozen
in ice.
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