725 days in the Arctic ice. Austro-Hungarian polar expedition 1871-1874.
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725 days in the Arctic ice. Austro-Hungarian polar expedition 1871-1874.
39.99 €
31.99 €
The second half of the 19th century. The North Pole would be conquered many decades later. Even the area lying to the north and east of Novaya Zemlya is virtually unexplored. What is there: solid ice, open sea, or - suddenly? - some new land? Is it possible to sail along the Siberian shores from Europe to the Bering Strait? To find an answer to at least one of these questions, Austria-Hungary organized an expedition. On August 30, 1873 the expedition led by K. Weiprecht and J. Payer on the ship "Tegettgof" during the drift in the Arctic Ocean, which lasted 725 days, saw an unknown land. Thus, a new archipelago was discovered, named Franz Josef Land by the expedition members in honor of the Kaiser of Austria-Hungary. The archipelago discovered by the Austro-Hungarian expedition was declared Russian territory in 1914, but most of the geographical objects retained the names given to them by Julius Payer. On the 150th anniversary of the discovery of Franz Josef Land, the publishing house "Paulsen" publishes the work of J. Payer, supplemented with an article by the honorary polar explorer B. A. Kremer (1908-1976) from the collection "Russian Arctic Expeditions of the XVII-XX centuries" (1964), as well as excerpts from the diaries of other expedition participants and maps of foot and toboggan routes through the archipelago.
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- All books by the publisher
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- All books in the series Polar Classics