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MUCH activity in polar exploration during the last year, particularly in Greenland and Northern Land and adjacent islands, is noted in the Polar Record for January. When Nansen crossed Greenland in 1888, the journey was considered to be difficult and adventurous. Since that date several other crossings have been made, but no period has been so fruitful in the exploration of the ice sheet as 1930 and 1931. During that time, two observatories have been instituted and used for longer or shorter periods on the ice, including the German station of the Wegener expedition in the centre; three new crossings of the ice-sheet have been made, including one across the greatest width; and for the first time, echo measurements of the thickness of the ice have been taken. It is also noted that Soviet explorers from the station on the Kamenev Islands to the west of Northern Land, in long sledge journeys, have filled in the western coasts of that land and determined its northern extremity in lat. 83° 16′ N., long. 95 °37′ E., thus finishing the last piece of pioneer work that the arctic regions offered. Details of these and various other polar explorations are given in the journal.
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Arctic Exploration. Nature 129, 503 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129503c0
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