Identifier: frozenzoneitsexp00hyde (find matches)
Title: The frozen zone and its explorers; a comprehensive record of voyages, travels, discoveries, adventures and whale-fishing in the Arctic regions for one thousand years
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Hyde, Alexander, 1814-1881 Baldwin, Abraham Chittenden, 1804-1887, joint author Gage, William Leonard, 1832-1889, joint author Shields, Charles W. (Charles Woodruff), 1825-1904
Subjects: Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 Polaris (Ship)
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. (etc.) Columbia book company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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cape——which has been appropriately named after
Prince Bismarck—marks the northern limit of their
discoveries.
As soon as navigation was again opened they com-
menced their explorations, and were fortunate enough
to discover (in about latitude 73^ 15) a branching
fiord, stretching for a long distance. This they
explored between longitudes 22^ and 28^, without
reaching its termination, the leaking boiler of the
engine compelling them to return. This fiord wa
named Franz Josef, in honor of Payer's sovereign.
Along its shores are peaks (Petermanns and Payers),
respectively fourteen thousand and seven thousand
feet high. On the 11th of September 1870, the
Germania returned to Bremen. Though the expedi-
tion failed in some of its objects it did admirable
work for geography and science, which redounds tot
he credit of the German people who supported and
the eminent men who planned and carried it out.
The Austro-Hungarian Arctic Expedition was
undertaken in 1872, and the idea was received with
enthusiasm by the whole Austrian empire. The
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COUNT WILCZEC IN NOVA ZEMBLA

LIEUT, PAYER'S EXPEDTION. 791
command was entrusted to Lieut. Payer, an accom-
plislied and resolute officer, who had already acquired
considerable Arctic experience in the German expedi-
tion under Captain Koldewey. He had also in 1871
explored the seas between Spitzbergen and Nova
Zembla in a little schooner called the Isbjorn. Lieut.
Weyprecht, the second in command, was the comrade
of Lieut. Payer in both his previous Arctic voyages.
The steamer "Tegethoff" was fitted out in the Elbe,
with every modern appliance. Captain Carlsen, the
finder of the Barentz relics, joined the expedition as
pilot. Dr. Kepes, the surgeon, is a Hungarian. Most
of the crew are Italians from the Adriatic coast; but
there is great confusion of tongues on board the
"Tegethoff" —Italian, German, English, Norwegian,
and Slavonic, are all spoken. Captain Carlsen gives
his orders in Norwegian, with forcible Italian expres-
sions occasionally thrown in. Dr. Kepes talks to the
crew in Latin and Hungarian and two men speak a
very curious dialect, the German of the Tyrol, which
Lieut. Payer alone understands.
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