Julius Von Payer (1842-1915)

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Höhn, E. Otto
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1991
• Subjects: von Payer; Julius; 1842-1915; Art; Artists; Biographies; Expeditions; Explorers; German North Pole Expedition; 1869-1870; History; Barents Sea; Frantsa-Iosifa; Zemlya; Russian Federation; Novaya Zemlya; Arctic; Franz Josef Land; Greenland; North Pole; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64588

Julius von Payer was born near Teplitz in Bohemia. . Due to his expertise on alpine glaciers, he was invited to join the German Polar Expedition of 1869-70, which worked in "new" areas in northeast Greenland. . Payer and his friend naval Lieutenant Weyprecht thought that the area between S...