冬天的一个下午——当天太阳一直没有升起,月亮已连续六天没有落下——我站在离马更些王岛的玛门角20英里的海冰上。哈森海峡的海冰并非毫无特色,但其表面没有严重扭曲的迹象,这和在林肯海等区域看到的景象不同。这里的水流相对平缓。在海水结冰的九到十个月里,我脚下的海冰几乎不会晃动。往南看,会看到泛出一缕缕紫色和深蓝色的薄薄天幕与地平线交成80°角。但冰雪几乎没有反射这些颜色,月色下四周全是浅淡的蓝色。可视距离为两三英里;但暗淡 One afternoon in winter - the sun did not rise that same day and the moon did not fall for six consecutive days - I stood on the sea ice about 20 miles off of Mamenjiao, the kings of the island. The sea ice in the Hasseen Strait is not without characteristics, but there are no signs of serious distortions on its surface, unlike the ones seen in the Lincoln Sea and other areas. The water flow is relatively flat here. In the nine to ten months when seawater is frozen, the sea ice under my feet hardly sloshes. Looking to the south, you will see a thin layer of canopies of purple and dark blue that intersect with the horizon at an angle of 80 °. However, almost no reflection of these colors of ice, the moonlight is full of pale blue. Visual distance of two or three miles; but dim