Read the 23-page travel account from National Geographic, including many historical maps and pictures. Roughly 1,000km from the North Pole lies Franz Josef Land, the world’s northernmost archipelago almost entirely covered by ice. A Russian archipelago of 192 islands lying around 81° north, Franz Josef Land is largely glaciated and surrounded by ample se. Furthermore, Børge and I received the award Adventurer´s of the Year 2008. Franz Josef Land is located between the islands of Svalbard to the west and the islands of Severnaya Zemlya to the east. National Geographic Magazine sponsored this expedition.
Find high-quality stock photos that you wont find anywhere. From there, we boarded a sailboat waiting to take us back to Norway. Search from 989 Franz Josef Land stock photos, pictures and royalty-free images from iStock. We arrived in Cape Flora after 85 days, the same place where Nansen and Johansen were rescued. We travelled to Franz Joseph Land by foot, following Nansens footsteps. To this very day, the crossing over the remote ice remains in my mind as an unrepeatable, magical spell. In 2006, Norwegian polar explorer Brge Ousland and I made a dream come true. But when the ice conditions became sketchy, we fully understood Nansen’s relief as we finally sighted land on the horizon. Our first goal was to reach the northernmost point, where Nansen and his partner Johansen arrived in 1895 – 86,4 degrees North latitude.įrom there, as the others had done in the past, we fought our way towards Franz Joseph Land. We started out from the North Pole on May 1st. We travelled to Franz Joseph Land by foot, following Nansen’s footsteps. The mafic extrusive and intrusive rocks found in the Barents Sea define the Barents. In 2006, Norwegian polar explorer Børge Ousland and I made a dream come true. 2012), extending from the Canadian Arctic Archipelago to Franz Josef Land.
You get much closer to the glacier The most popular hiking trail in Franz Josef and one of the best hikes on the South Island is without a doubt the Franz Josef Glacier Valley Walk. Anyone who has ever travelled in the Arctic, is familiar with the stories of Fridtjof Nansen, one of the greatest polar explorers of all time. Hike the Franz Josef Glacier Valley Walk.
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