Recent Expeditions to Eastern Polar SeasDescribes German Arctic Expedition of 1869-70 and the Austrian Arctic Expedition of 1872-74. The first explored the east coast of Greenland and the second steamed past Novaya Zemlya to Franz Josef Land. |
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abyss adventurers anchor Arctic winter Barents basin of open bear began bergs blocks boats cabin Cape Fligely Cape Schrötter Cape Tegethoff Captain Carlsen Captain Hegemann Captain Koldewey crevasses crew deck depôt direction discovered dogs drift explorers feet fiord Franz-Josef Land FRIEDRICHSTHAL frozen gale Germania glacier Greenland Gwosdarew Hall Island Haller Hammerfest Hansa headland horizon hummocks hundred Ice Haven ice-bound ice-field ice-floe icebergs Jan Mayen JULY Kara Sea Klotz latitude 79 Lieutenant Payer longitude Lukinovich M'Clintock Island March mass miles morning navigators night noon northerly northward Novaya Zemlya open water Orel pack pack-ice plorers Polar Polar night Pole Prince Rudolph's Land provisions raft reached reefs rocky rope rose sail Shannon Island shore side sight sledge sledge-party snow solid Sound Spitzbergen storm summit temperature tent thick tion Tyrolean vessel VOYAGE Weyprecht and Payer Wilczek Island wind Zaninovich zero