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Sight Which Brought Joy to the Hearts of the Polar Explorers

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Stock #:297136
Type: Postcard
Era: Divided Back
Publisher: Kwin & Co.
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

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A sudden blaze of light, bluish green, illumines the pitch darkness of the arctic night, a pale iambent ray shoots upward to the zenith, flickers a moment, then a thin veil, overspreads the heavens, dying slowly, mingling with the blackness (by contrast) of the polar ice... 'tis gone! The return of the sun February 19th after six months of night was the signal for the dash

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