Giles Land – a mystery for S.A. Andrée and other early Arctic explorers
After the initial discovery of Giles Land (Kvitøya, Svalbard) by Cornelis Giles in 1707, it was most likely never seen by anyone again until 1876. During this lengthy period, Giles Land evolved into an enigma as various explorers and cartographers came to very different conclusions about its probabl...
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ftchalmersuniv:oai:research.chalmers.se:512844 2023-05-15T14:57:21+02:00 Giles Land – a mystery for S.A. Andrée and other early Arctic explorers Lantz, Björn 2019 text https://doi.org/10.33265/polar.v38.3433 https://research.chalmers.se/en/publication/4f55d194-26fb-453a-97e3-39b1d8f84c7b unknown http://dx.doi.org/10.33265/polar.v38.3433 https://research.chalmers.se/en/publication/4f55d194-26fb-453a-97e3-39b1d8f84c7b History of Technology History Andrée expedition maps Giles Land Arctic exploration svalbard Kvitøya 2019 ftchalmersuniv https://doi.org/10.33265/polar.v38.3433 2022-12-11T07:10:07Z After the initial discovery of Giles Land (Kvitøya, Svalbard) by Cornelis Giles in 1707, it was most likely never seen by anyone again until 1876. During this lengthy period, Giles Land evolved into an enigma as various explorers and cartographers came to very different conclusions about its probable location, character or even existence. In 1897, when the engineer Salomon August Andrée tried to return over the ice after his failed attempt to reach the North Pole in a balloon, he passed through an area approximately 160 km north of Kvitøya where Giles Land was indicated on his map. Andrée searched for it, but there was no land in sight. The main reason why Giles Land was erroneously positioned too far north was due to a conjecture by a German cartographer August Petermann in 1872. While there was some distrust of Petermann’s conjecture at the time, many also believed it. The erroneous understanding that Giles Land was in the far north was only finally dismissed in the 1930s. This article examines how this misunderstanding regarding the identity and location of Giles Land could arise and become entrenched. Other/Unknown Material Arctic Kvitøya North Pole Svalbard Chalmers University of Technology: Chalmers research Andrée ENVELOPE(-61.500,-61.500,-64.516,-64.516) Arctic Giles ENVELOPE(-137.617,-137.617,-75.150,-75.150) North Pole Svalbard Polar Research 38 0 |
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After the initial discovery of Giles Land (Kvitøya, Svalbard) by Cornelis Giles in 1707, it was most likely never seen by anyone again until 1876. During this lengthy period, Giles Land evolved into an enigma as various explorers and cartographers came to very different conclusions about its probable location, character or even existence. In 1897, when the engineer Salomon August Andrée tried to return over the ice after his failed attempt to reach the North Pole in a balloon, he passed through an area approximately 160 km north of Kvitøya where Giles Land was indicated on his map. Andrée searched for it, but there was no land in sight. The main reason why Giles Land was erroneously positioned too far north was due to a conjecture by a German cartographer August Petermann in 1872. While there was some distrust of Petermann’s conjecture at the time, many also believed it. The erroneous understanding that Giles Land was in the far north was only finally dismissed in the 1930s. This article examines how this misunderstanding regarding the identity and location of Giles Land could arise and become entrenched. |
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