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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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rvellously elastic, and will bend toan astonishing degree without breaking. In another place wesaw how the new ice had bulged up in large wave-like emi-nences, without breaking. On May 5th the wide lane aft was jammed up by ice-pressure,and in its stead a rift was formed in the ice on the port sideabout 100 yards from us, and approximately parallel to theship. Thus we now lay in an altered position, inasmuch as theFram was no longer connected with and dependent on onesolid and continuous ice-field, but separated from it by more orless open channels and attached to a large floe which was dailydecreasing in size as new cracks were formed. The principal channel aft of the vessel continued to open outduring the latter part of April, and on the 29th had becomevery wide. It extended north as far as the eye could reach,and was conspicuous, moreover, by reason of the dark reflec-tion which seemed to hover above it in the sky. It probablyattained its maximum width on May 1st, when Scott-Hansen
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MARCH 15 TO JUNE 22, 1S95 61 and I measured it and found that just astern of the vessel it was975 yards, and farther north over 1500 yards (1432 metres) inwidth. Had the Fram been loose at the time I should havegone north in the channel as far as possible ; but this was not tobe thought of, seeing how the ship had been raised up on andwalled in by the ice. No later than May 2d the principal channel closed up again.The mate, Nordahl, and Amundsen, who just then happened tobe out on a snow-shoe trip south along the channel, were eye-witnesses of the jamming of the ice, which they described ashaving been a grand sight. The fresh southeasterly wind hadimparted a considerable impetus to the ice, and when the edgesof the ice approached each other with considerable velocity andforce, two large projecting tongues first came into collision witha crash like thunder, and in a moment were forced up in a hum-mock about 20 feet high, only to collapse soon after, and disap-pear with equal suddenness

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