IN SEVENTY BIGHT NORTH.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1875, 26 February 1880, Page 3

IN SEVENTY BIGHT NORTH.

The Dutch exploring steamer Willem Barents, which arrived at Hammerfcst on September the 24th, has this year made ample amends for the small amount of work accomplished last year. She succeeded in reaching Eranz Josef Land, discovered by the Austrian expedition about four years ago. The expedition encountered stormy weather in September, and found much ice in the Kara Sea and to the north of Novaya Zomlya. M’Clintock Island, in the south of Eranz Josef Land, was surrounded by ice, and on the return journey ice was found east of the 55th degree. They left the Isbjorn in Matoschken Scharr. This Tsbjorn is the little Norwegian cutter in which Captain Albert Markham and Sir Henry Gore Booth have been cruising in the Novaya Zemlya seas, and which reached Tromsoe on September 23nd. On June 4fch they met with ice forty miles from the west coast of Novaya Zemlya, and finding Matoschken Scharr impassable, they sailed along the west coast of Novaya Zemlya to Oapo Nassau, where the Isbjorn was stopped by ice. Returning again, the Matoschken Scharr was passed, but the Kara Sea was full of masses of ice. On their return they fell in with the Willem Barents, and Markham decided to press northwards again, and this time succeeded in reaching, on September 6tb, Cape Mauritius, the north point of the island. Pressing still farther northward between Novaya Zemlya and Spitzbergen, the Isbjorn reached 78dog. 24min north lat., only about eighty miles from Franz Josef Land. Rare na'ural history collections wore made, and much information was obtained about the state of the ice in this sea. Captain Markham was going to leave Tromsoe September 24th on his return to England.