This letter jarred upon her dream, but after a few days of bewilderment, she returned to her frozen seas and snow.

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At the end of the winter, the frozen seas cover 15.7m square kilometres (6.1m square miles), an area more than one and a half times that of the United States.

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They tell of journeys to the South Seas and the frozen north, of 'worthy men' given up to whales, sharks and fever.

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