Fridtiof Nansen, 1861-1893 . -.^^^^-^ -. ELLING CARLSEN into unknown waters than they would have done merely forthe sake of hunting. We may begin our record of Norwegian discoveries inthe Polar Sea with the year 1859. In that year CaptainElling Carlsen ^ was seal-hunting in the brig Jan Mayen eastof Spitzbergen at some distance from the islands which ^ Bom in Tromso in 1819. He afterwards took part as Ice-Master in theAustrian polar expedition of 1872-74. CONTRIBUTIONS OF NORWEGIANS TO ARCTIC GEOGRAPHY 265 form the eastern shore of Storfiord. Carlsen was accom-panied by another well-known Arct
Fridtiof Nansen, 1861-1893 . -.^^^^-^ -. ELLING CARLSEN into unknown waters than they would have done merely forthe sake of hunting. We may begin our record of Norwegian discoveries inthe Polar Sea with the year 1859. In that year CaptainElling Carlsen ^ was seal-hunting in the brig Jan Mayen eastof Spitzbergen at some distance from the islands which ^ Bom in Tromso in 1819. He afterwards took part as Ice-Master in theAustrian polar expedition of 1872-74. CONTRIBUTIONS OF NORWEGIANS TO ARCTIC GEOGRAPHY 265 form the eastern shore of Storfiord. Carlsen was accom-panied by another well-known Arctic sailor, Sivert Tobiesen.^On July 21, 1859, Carlsen sighted land to the north, and onthe 22nd he was only two miles south of this land, whichhas afterwards proved to be part of the group of islandsknown by the name of King Charles Land. It is probablethat they had already been sighted in 1617 by an English-man, Thomas Edge, who had given them the name of Wilkes
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