New Land
This well-illustrated account of polar exploration was originally published in Norway in 1903, and in this two-volume English translation in 1904. It tells the story of the four years spent by Otto Sverdrup (1854–1930) and his crew in surveying and charting the seas and coastlines of the Arctic. Sve...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/cbo9781107281288 2024-06-09T07:43:23+00:00 New Land Four Years in the Arctic Regions Sverdrup, Otto Neumann Hearn, Ethel Harriet 2014 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781107281288 unknown Cambridge University Press https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms ISBN 9781108071109 9781107281288 monograph 2014 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781107281288 2024-05-15T13:02:01Z This well-illustrated account of polar exploration was originally published in Norway in 1903, and in this two-volume English translation in 1904. It tells the story of the four years spent by Otto Sverdrup (1854–1930) and his crew in surveying and charting the seas and coastlines of the Arctic. Sverdrup had qualified as a ship's master when he first met Fridtjof Nansen, whose Greenland expedition of 1888 he accompanied. He advised on the construction of Nansen's wooden ship, the Fram, and became its master in 1895. Both with Nansen and under his own leadership, he undertook many expeditions. In June 1898, he took the Fram and a crew including several scientists to Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic, where they overwintered for four years. Volume 1 describes the life and work of the first two years, including extensive trips away from the Fram, both on land and on the ice. Book Arctic Ellesmere Island Fridtjof Nansen Greenland Cambridge University Press Arctic Ellesmere Island Fridtjof ENVELOPE(-56.717,-56.717,-63.567,-63.567) Greenland Norway Cambridge |
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This well-illustrated account of polar exploration was originally published in Norway in 1903, and in this two-volume English translation in 1904. It tells the story of the four years spent by Otto Sverdrup (1854–1930) and his crew in surveying and charting the seas and coastlines of the Arctic. Sverdrup had qualified as a ship's master when he first met Fridtjof Nansen, whose Greenland expedition of 1888 he accompanied. He advised on the construction of Nansen's wooden ship, the Fram, and became its master in 1895. Both with Nansen and under his own leadership, he undertook many expeditions. In June 1898, he took the Fram and a crew including several scientists to Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic, where they overwintered for four years. Volume 1 describes the life and work of the first two years, including extensive trips away from the Fram, both on land and on the ice. |
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