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Title: Farthest north; being the record of a voyage of exploration of the ship "Fram" 1893-96, and of a fifteen months' sleigh journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Nansen, Fridtjof, 1861-1930 Sverdrup, Otto Neumann, 1854-1930
Subjects: "Fram" Expedition. 1893-1896)
Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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tches. June 15th I wrotein my diary: There are several lanes visible in dif-ferent directions, but none of them is wide or of anygreat extent. The mate, however, is always insist-ing that we shall certainly get open water before au-tumn, and be able to creep along northward, whilewith the rest, Sverdrup excepted, it seems to be a gen-erally accepted belief. Where they are to get their openwater from I do not know. For the rest, this is the firstice-bound expedition that has not spent the summerspying after open water, and sighing and longing for theice to disperse. I only wish it may keep together, andhurry up and drift northward. Everything in this lifedepends on what one has made up ones mind to. Oneperson sets forth to sail in open water, perhaps to thevery Pole, but gets stuck in the ice and laments; anotheris prepared to get stuck in the ice, but will not grumbleeven should he find open water. It is ever the safestplan to expect the least of life, for then one often getsthe most.
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THE SPRIXG AND SUAIMER OF iSg^ 457 The open spaces, the lanes, and the rifts in the ice are,of course, produced, like the pressure and packing, bythe shifting winds and the tidal currents that set the icedrifting first in one direction, then in another. And theybest prove, perhaps, how the surface of the Polar Seamust be considered as one continuous mass of ice-f^oesin constant motion, now frozen together, now torn apart,or crushed against each other. During the whole of our drift I paid great attention tothis ice, not only with respect to its motion, but to itsformation and growth as well. In the Introduction ofthis book I have pointed out that, even should the icepass year after year in the cold Polar Sea, it could notby mere freezing attain more than a certain thickness.From measurements that were constantly being made,it appeared that the ice which was formed during theautumn in October or November continued to increasein size during the whole of the winter and out intothe spring,

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