hiverner

Environ à 400 milles du pôle, ils ont du renoncer : ils hivernèrent sur une île désolée, dans une hutte qu'ils avaient construite avec des pierres, et attendirent le printemps suivant pour se diriger vers les îles de Svalbard (Spitzbergen).
About 400 miles short of the pole they had to turn back: they wintered on a desolate island, in a hut they built of stones and walrus hides, and the following spring they headed for the islands of Svalbard (Spitzbergen).
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