POLAR EXPEDITION

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 188, 16 May 1872, Page 3

POLAR EXPEDITION

An Austrian Polar Expedition is thus noticed in the Eastern Budget Tho success of the preliminary expedition sent by Austria to the sea of Nqva Zembla has decided tho Geographical Society at Vienna to make preparations for a new expedition to the North Polo on a larger scale. The expedition is to be under the command of Liculs. Weyprecht and Payer, and the Emperor lias granted the amount required for the preliminary ex.p uses. The chief result of the first expedition was the discovery that, owing to the warm water of the Gulf Stream, the s a to the north of Nova Zembla is open in the autumn as far as the 79th degree of north latitude, and that there is very little ice in tin’s region as compared with others in the vicinity of the Pole. The new expedition will proceed eastward from the above sea into the hitherto unexplored district north of Siberia, which it is believed will he found as navigable as the sea north of Nova Zembla. It is proposed to reach the islands of New Siberia in til'- lir.st year, to winter there, and in tlie following summer to go northward, and pass the winter on the land east of the islands of New Siberia. The third year would tie occupied in an attempt to reach America through Behring’s Straits. The expenses of the expedition (which will proceed in a single ship, manned by an Austrian crow) arc estimated at 175,0000 (£17,500), of which about 45,000(1 have already been subscribed. The ship is to be called the legetthoff, after the hero of Lissa.”