Abstract

Recent tourist cruises of Franz Josef Land have offered the chance to search for the remains of historic expeditions to the islands, as well as expeditions that used the islands as a base from which to try to reach the geographic North Pole. Expedition leader Andreas Umbreit discusses his recent such finds at both Greely Island and Teplitz Bay on Rudolf Island, as well as several other sites.

Highlights

  • I would like to start with some recent views of Greely Island, which was the location of Evelyn Baldwin’s ‘Kane Lodge.’

  • I tried to find the site in 2011, but it was so foggy that we circled Coal Mine Island without realizing that we were not on Greely Island, and gave up

  • A current photograph of a Repsold Circle received after the Oslo Workshop as a result of an inquiry by Susan Barr to Bjørn Johansen of the Museum for universitets- og vitenskapshistorie (MUV) in Oslo (photo courtesy of Anne Vaalund/Museum for universitets-og vitenskapshistorie (MUV)); on the right the artist and cartographer Russell Porter during the Ziegler Polar Expedition led by Anthony Fiala, at the Repsold Circle in the astronomical observatory at Camp Abruzzi

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I would like to start with some recent views of Greely Island, which was the location of Evelyn Baldwin’s ‘Kane Lodge.’ In Fiala’s book, there is a record that they used the Kane Lodge site as well. It was where Baldwin landed first, and where Fiala’s expedition had a lookout there, looking for the rescue ship.

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