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WE are glad to learn from Denmark that Dr. Nansen has been successful in crossing Greenland. Dr. Nansen, it will be remembered, left the ship in a boat off the south-east coast of Greenland, 65° 2′ N., on July 17. He knew his party had to sail south among the ice for twelve days before they succeeded in landing to the north of Cape Farewell in lat. 61°. As he came out at Godthaab, on the opposite coast, in October, he has taken about three months on the journey, which was made in a line about sixty miles south of that he intended to follow. The section crossed by Dr. Nansen's expedition is in the south and narrow part of Greenland, Nordenskjöld's route having been much farther north, and almost in the centre of the land. Unfortunately, Dr. Nansen just missed the last ship from Greenland to Europe, so that he will have to remain at Godthaab till May next. Until then we must wait for full details.
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Geographical Notes . Nature 39, 62–63 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/039062a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/039062a0