This well-illustrated account of polar exploration was originally published in Norway in 1903, and in this two-volume English translation in 1904. It tells the story of the four years spent by Otto Sverdrup (1854–1930) and his crew in surveying and charting the seas and coastlines of the Arctic. Sve...

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Main Author:	Sverdrup, Otto Neumann 1854-1930 (Author)
Other Authors:	Hearn, Ethel Harriet (Translator)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1904
Series:	Cambridge library collection. Polar exploration
Subjects:	Sverdrup, Otto Neumann / 1854-1930 / Travel / Arctic regions Fram (Ship) Arctic regions / Discovery and exploration / Norwegian Ellesmere Island (Nunavut) / Discovery and exploration / Norwegian
Online Access:	BSB01 UBG01 Volltext
Summary:	This well-illustrated account of polar exploration was originally published in Norway in 1903, and in this two-volume English translation in 1904. It tells the story of the four years spent by Otto Sverdrup (1854–1930) and his crew in surveying and charting the seas and coastlines of the Arctic. Sverdrup had qualified as a ship's master when he first met Fridtjof Nansen, whose Greenland expedition of 1888 he accompanied. He advised on the construction of Nansen's wooden ship, the Fram, and became its master in 1895. Both with Nansen and under his own leadership, he undertook many expeditions. In June 1898, he took the Fram and a crew including several scientists to Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic, where they overwintered for four years. Volume 2 describes the remainder of the expedition's time on the ice, and also the results of the various scientific surveys made by the crew
Item Description:	Includes index
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xii, 504 pages)
ISBN:	9781107281295
DOI:	10.1017/CBO9781107281295