Terrestrial refraction mb-width 2564 amongst them Russia and Germany

amongst them Russia and Germany

People stroll along the outer path

Funeral of Earl Mountbatten September 1979 Bearer party from HMS Mercury with coffin on gun carriage pass through Parliament Square

In the right background are village stocks

between a Turkish warship and four small Russian gunboats

Terrestrial refraction mb-width 2564 amongst them Russia and GermanyPlate illustrating John Ross's report of the curious effects of refraction in Arctic latitudes. The observations were made on 22 September 1832 at North End Cape, Somerset Island, in the Canadian Arctic. Figure 1 shows the land 'as with no refraction, distant fourteen miles'; figure 2 shows 'the same land, with an iceberg four miles distant raised above the land'; figure 3 shows 'the same refracted in a different way on the same day.' Plate facing p.