Show wite L perished fished Pe tu CROWN prinice dimajo test RUDOL aba 1111 L LAO 6 I 1 E E 0 44 sees 1474 SEA WARL ALEXAND tit arit 0 SEN A ENS KUT ML ai ly D ZE 1 i if estetter hs tetter W IM ake 1 Well mana mans map showing frithjof ariansen land where A andrees pody was W found prepared by tits the national geographic society washington D C LAND formerly cafter franz josef land has ins after a third of 0 a century g given ven up op the body of augut august andree n rep believed to have been lost fo forever ev in the arctic lee ice the swedish explorer disappeared in his balloon in 1897 north of spitsbergen close to the place at which No Nob N lles tilles dirigible later dig disappeared appeared explorers explorers were at first hopeful that he had drifted eastward to franz josef land walter wellman veltman assisted by the national geographic society led an expedition to franz jo josef joef ef land the following year and thought it likely that he would find and andree at capr capp flora on one of the southernmost of the islands which was known by andree to be a headquarters and a frequent point of call for explorers andree was not at cape flora however and no trace of him or his balloon was ever found in franz josef land until a few weeks ago although the islands are desolate and ice fee mantled and have never alwn inhabited it Is possible for men to exist there even through the winter ns as the history of arctic PK exploration proves the land was diw lisov pred noci accidentally ci in by an austro alun garlan expedition bent on finding the northeast passage their ship caught in the lee ice drifted to the sou southern tern extremity x of the island group and the crew wintered in ili her fast in the ice in 1881 a british party vf t f 25 2 Us its ship crushed wintered on sho shore re livin living partly on bear and walrus ciupa meat ceif wellman and his companions spent the winter of 09 19 on shore and the zeigler expedition wintered over in 1904 5 group of many islands its austro hungarian discoverer named the land franz josef laud land under the impression that it was mas a large land mass perhaps even een of continental tin size later exploration disclosed that it Is a group of many islands of these tire lire ton ten miles or more A h length and the remainder scoops of them are small several severah X f tie che islands are as much as 50 miles long the group lies slightly farther north than spitsbergen and its center Is as tar far eist east of kings bay as new york Is east of detroit it Is as tar far north borth of the murman const coast of russia and the northern coast of norway as chicago Is north of new orleans it Is about the same distance from the north pole the lands nime name was recently cluvie changed ged to frithjof callsen land by a vote of the russian association of science the island groups new uline Is appropriate because the islands were the scene of one of the alie noat dramatic episodes in the life of the late frithjof Frith jot nansen the land which has been named tor for him film literally saved tits hla life and preserved him tor for the valuable humanitarian career that reached a when lie to in cooperation with herbert hoover saved the lives of millions of famine strick en russians nansen took a small party on board the specially constructed vessel from fram and entered the ice fee floes does olt off northern siberia in 1893 with the hope of drifting with the lee ice across the north pole they drifted tor for 35 months locked in the lee ice without sighting land and without a single contact with the world nansen and his crew were believed to be lost when nansen found that the fram frain was not drifting toward the pole he determined to chish with a single companion over the lee ice to the top of the world johansen Jol iansen was picked to gu go with him they took three sledges 22 dogs and two kasaks kayaks eskimo en boesl noes they did not attain their objective jec tive but they made a new farthest nor north th 86 degrees and 12 minutes just miles south of the pole F from rom their northernmost point the two men iron ir on turned south and began one of the longest marches arar made over arcile lee ice finally they were reduced to to two dogs after many days daya they ro reached eva island one of the outlying islands of what is now frithjof nansen land luil building ding a stone hut but they lived on oa the isolated isle through the tha winter subsisting chiefly on bear meat next spring they started south for the main islands of the group hansens Nan sens kayak was attacked attached by a huge walrus that drove its tusks through the fragile craft but nansen scrambled rambled sr out on a enke cake of ice fee as the tiny hont boat filled with water and they made their way to the southern islands there they met to their great joy frederick jackson leader of an all english expedition although jackson had met nansen years before he failed for the moment to recognize lii in the tha bearded hinck skinned sooty haired wand the s blood norwegian explorer ex clorer nansen and johansen lohans cn came home on the english bartys whaler the fram rani arrived a few days later who had been given up for dead received a tremendous welcome the sea between northern spitsbergen bergen and northern frithjof nansen land and Is parked packed with an almost unbroken expanse of lee ice so that navigation northward la 19 seldom possible eien een the narrower channels between the frithjof nansen islands are eter nally frozen but the larger channels become ice free in summer between southern spitsbergen and the southern islands there Is often open water in n summer hummer south however the ice fee Is usually packed and this floating harrier must he be traversed by ships steaming from russia and to I 1 frithjof nansen land because of its far northern position and the greater distance the arctic of the gulf stream must flow to reach tt it frithjof nansen land 1 marked by arctic conditions to a greater extent thin than spitsbergen it has been called the worlds most mast polar land 11 most of the islands are plateaus less les than 1000 feet liili covered with domes of ice fee at some points the black basalt crags that form the edges ot of the plateaus protrude from the white lee ice and snow coastal lowlands are of small extent extent save on two or three of the westernmost islands vegetation and animal life the vegetation of the few snow free spots Is scant consisting only of lichens meshes and several grasses the animal life too Is menger meager for the tha most part a few hears bears and fewer foxes on land walruses and seals in the water the bird life Is the alc richest grent great links of little auks dove kips and other birds frequent the Is lands from march to september there are no reindeer or harps hares one important item for castaways casta ways Is the existence of considerable quan nunn titles of driftwood along the shores of the inter island channels this is 13 evidently wood cast out into the arctic ocean by the great northward flowing rivers river 8 0 of f siberia sit era I 1 such as the ohl obi and the Yen fel not only his has former franz josef land become a memorial in its entirety because lt it Is divided and subdivided into numerous islands large and small email with numerous ch channels and capes and headlands it has demanded innumerable names the history of in the islands by men of various nationalities is in large part written on oil the map british Cl channel iannel alexandra island harmsworth Har insworth straits cambridge bay island Way sen sea crown prince rudolf land pierpont pont li forgar strait vanderbilt bilt sound graham bell island whitney sea austrians Aust rians english americans norwegians Norwegia ns and italians lime had a hand in seeking ou out the secrets secrete of this ley icy island group one of the latest explorations in frithjof nansen land before the ex tion which found andrees boody this summer dav wi in 1925 by a british parka part which carried into the alie region the first n modern I 1 i 1 deru radio equipment the tha party co constantly n s t antly checked its time thue by b adlo signals from the eiffel tower towe aid il carls aels and listened to music and an noun cements from london and othal stations |