Soviet-Norwegian Historical Expedition to Zemlya Frantsa-Iosifa

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Author: Barr, Susan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1991
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; Fridtjof; Eira; Franz Joseph Land; Fridtjof Nansen; Polar Record
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s003224740001305x; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S003224740001305X

Abstract In summer 1990 a Soviet-Norwegian expedition spent three weeks travelling to and around Zemlya Frantsa-Iosifa (Franz Joseph Land). The main purpose of the expedition was to locate the remains of Fridtjof Nansen and Hjalmar Johansen's wintering quarters of 1895–96, and other historical...