| Show ft e A S hr cam princa L L I 1 LAND A HM 3 EA mu adur W lebek R tk U Well mana mans map show showing ing frithjof nansen land where andrees And reea body was found prepared Pr pred by the national geographic society washington D CL CI 1 LANU for F merly franz frane josef land has after a third of a century given up the body of august andree believed to have been lost forever in tile the arctic lee ice the swedish explorer disappeared in his balloon in 1897 nor north of spitsbergen close to the place at which I 1 tell ealco Nob No lles tilles dirigible later inter disappeared alsap e explorers were at first hopeful that he be had drifted eastward to franz frana josef land walter wellman assisted by the national geographic society led an expedition to franz josef land the following year and thought thi it likely that he would find andree andrea at cape flora on oil one of the southernmost or of the lie islands which was known by an dree to be a and a fre quent point of call for explorers A an n dree was not at cape flora how homeer ho weer ever and no trace of him or ills filloon hil loon oon wits was ever found in franz josef lind land until a few weeks no ago although the islands are desolate and ice fee mantled and liae have never nemr lin inhabited it Is possible poss ble for mell to exist there even ern through the winter us as the history of arctic exploration proves the land was discovered tie nc cl ci dentally in 1873 hy by an austro hungarian expedition bent on finding the northeast A passage their ship cal caught I 1 in the lee ice drifted to tile oie southern so extremity of the island group land and the crew wintered in her fast in tile the lee irv iii 1881 a british party of 2 its ship crushed crashed wintered on shore shoie alvin ieng partly on bear and walrus meat wellman and his companions spent spen t the winter of 1803 TO 99 on shore and the lie zigler expedition wintered over oer in 1904 1004 5 group lif of many islands glands its austro hungarian discoverer named the land franz josef land under the impression that it was nas a large land mass perhaps een of cantin continental tin size later exploration als dosed closed that it Is FL a group of many islands of these are ten miles or more A ien length ath and the remainder I 1 I 1 s of them are afi small all several t f the elle islands are as much as s CO 50 miles long the alie group lies slightly ElIght ly farther north than spitsbergen and its center Is as far east of kings bay as new york Is east of detroit it Is as far north of the murman coast co 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 name wits was recently to frithjof anunsen land by it a vote of tile the russian association of science the island groups new imme Is appropriate because the Is linda were the scene of one of the most dramatic episodes in the life of afi the late frithjof nansen the land nelch has been named tor for him literally saved his life and preserved him tor for the val valuable icile career that reached reach eds a climax alien he in cooperation with herbert hoover saved the lives of millions of famine stricken russians nansen took a small party on board the specialty specially constructed vessel from and entered the ice fee floes olt off northern siberia in with the hope of drifting with the ice across th alie north pole they drifted for 35 months locked in tile tee without sighting land and without a single contact with the world nansen and his crew were bel believed lived to be lost when nansen found that the from fram was eras not drifting toward the pole he determined to dush dash with ft ath a single corn com pardon over oer the ice to the top of the world johansen Jol iansen wits was picked to gu go with him they tools took three sledges 22 dogs and two tuo kayaks kajaks eskimo canoes they did not attala their objective jec tive but they made a new farthest north 88 86 degrees ni and nd 12 minutes just Us t miles south of the pole from their northernmost point the to men turned south and began one of tha longest marche marches i air haiie over arctic tee ice finally they acre reduced to two dois doga alter ofte mw day they reached 10 kia la island one of the outlying islands ot of what Is now r frithjof causen nausen land building a stone lint but they hey lived on the isolated isle through the winter subsisting cli chiefly lefly on bear meat next spring they started south for the main islands Island of the group Nan hansens sens kayak was attacked by it a huge walrus that drove its tusks through the fragile craft but na nansen ansen scrambled out on a cake of lee ice as the tiny boat filled with water waiter and they nude made their wa way to the southern islands there they met to their great joy frederick jackson leider leader of an english expedition jackson hall had met nansen years before lie he failed for the moment to recognize in the bearded he aided black skinned shi nned sooty haired wand tile the famous blond norwegian explorer nansen and Johnn Jol iansen sent came horne home on the englich bartys whaler the fram arrived a few days later nansen Nii noen who had been given ghen up for dead rec received elved a tre tremendous welcome welcom the son sea between northern spitsbergen and northern frithjof nansen land Is usually packed with an almost inh expanse expanse of lee ice so that navi northward Is seldom possible ellven the narrower channels between ll 11 hie k e nansen islands tire are eter ily frozen but the larger channels become ice free in su summer nimer between southern seathern Spits spitsbergen hergen and the southern islands there Is often open water in n summer eu miner farther Fart lier south however the lee ice Is squally packed and ahli floating harrier must most he traversed by ships steaming from hussla nu sila and norway to nansen land keen use of its fur northern position and the greater distance the arctic arm of tile gulf stream must flow to reach it frithjof nansen land li Is marked by arctic conditions to a greater extent than spitsbergen it lies has been called the worlds most polar land most host of the islands ire are plateaus less than 1000 feet high covered with domes of ice at some points tile the black basalt cr crags gs that form the edges of the plateaus fir protrude etrude fron from the white lee ice and snow coastal lowlands are of small extent extant saie save zin on two tivo or three of the westernmost islands a nd S vegetation and animal life the vegetation of the few snow iree free scots Is scant consisting only of lichens and several grosses grasses the animal life too Is meager for the most put a few polar hears bears and fewer taxes on land walruses and seals seala in the water w aler tile bird life Is the richest great lola 1013 of little aults dove kles and other birds frequent the island from marell march to september there Ther therease eare are ri no 0 reindeer or liti hares res one Im important t item for castaways casta ways Is the existence of considerable quantities of driftwood along the shores of the inter island channels tills la is evidently wood cast out into the arctic ocean by the great northward flowing rivers of siberia such as the obi and the not only has former franz joset josef annd become a memorial in its en ItI tl because it Is divided and subdivided into num numerous crous islands large and small with numerous channels tind capes and headlands it has demanded innumerable names the history of exploit liln in the islands by men of various nationalities Is in large part written on the map british channel alexandra island Har harmsworth insworth straits cambridge bay island sea crown prince rudolf land pierpont pont morgan strait Vander blit sound bell island whittley sen Aust austrians rians english americans norwegians Norwegia ns find italians have lind had a hand in seeking out tho lio secrets acereto of th this Isley icy island group one of the explorations in frithjof nansen lund before tile the ex tion which foland andrees And reea lady tills this summer in 1025 by a british part which carried into the region the first radio equipment the alie party constantly checked its atine by radio signals froni rom the eiffel towe parts and listened to music and an noun cements from loudon london and oth stations |
