Farthest North

Farthest North
Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896

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Farthest North by Fridtjof Nansen

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1897

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Farthest North
Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896

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eparations for the trip. Hansen must see about appointing another meteorological assistant.'

"Tuesday, November 20th. This evening I delivered an address to the whole ship's company, in which I announced the determination that had been arrived at, and explained to them the projected expedition. First of all, I briefly went through the whole theory of our undertaking, and its history from the beginning, laying stress on the idea on which my plans had been built up--namely, that a vessel which got frozen in north of Siberia must drift across the Polar Sea and out into the Atlantic, and must pass somewhere or other north of Franz Josef Land and between it and the Pole. The object of the expedition was to accomplish this drift across the unknown sea, and to pursue investigations there. I pointed out to them that these investigations would be of equal importance whether the expedition actually passed across the Pole itself or at some distance from it. Judging from our experiences hitherto, we could not ente

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