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  3. Excursions in and about Newfoundland, during the Years 1839 and 1840
    Volume 2
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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    March 2012
    May 2011
    ISBN:
    9781139014052
    9781108030908
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139014052
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    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.48kg, 374 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Earth and Environmental Sciences, Geography, Historical Geography, Geomorphology and Physical Geography
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration
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    Subjects:
    Earth and Environmental Sciences, Geography, Historical Geography, Geomorphology and Physical Geography
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    Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration
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    Joseph Beete Jukes (1811–1869) was a geologist who studied at Cambridge under the famous Adam Sedgwick (1785–1873) and eventually became a prominent member of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. In 1839, after many field expeditions in England, he was appointed to a survey of Newfoundland, a place about which he had until then been in 'utter ignorance'. The explorers failed to find the hoped-for mineral wealth they had been sent to prospect for, and returned to Britain. In 1841 Jukes joined the H.M.S. Fly as a naturalist for an upcoming expedition to chart the coasts of Australia and New Guinea. The Fly set sail for the Pacific in 1842, the year in which this two-volume account of Jukes' Newfoundland experiences was published. Volume 2 focuses mainly on Jukes' scientific observations, and includes descriptions of the island's natural history, geography and geology.

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