Abstract
A MOVEMENT has been started in Norway for the despatch in the summer of 1890 of an Expedition which would try to reach the North Pole, and it is proposed that the leadership shall be offered to Dr. Nansen. Those who are arranging the plans maintain that no other country could furnish such a crew of experienced and hardy ice men and Arctic travellers as Norway, and that a winter or two in the Arctic regions would affect these men very little. The intention is that an attempt shall be made to reach the Pole by way of Franz Josef's Land, a route advocated by the most experienced Norwegian Arctic travellers as well as by several well-known men of science who have studied the problem. Ski, which have played such a prominent part in the Nordenskiöld and Nansen Greenland expeditions, would no doubt again be of great service.
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Notes . Nature 39, 255–258 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/039255a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/039255a0
