Farthest north; being the record of a voyage of exploration of the ship "Fram" 1893-96, and of a fifteen months' sleigh journey by DrNansen and LieutJohansen . ons for the trip. Hansen must see about ap-pointing another meteorological assistant. Tuesday, November 20th. This evening I deliveredan address to the whole ships company, in which I an-nounced the determination that had been arrived at, andexplained to them the projected expedition. First of all,I briefly went through the whole theory of our under-taking, and its history from the beginning, laying stresson the idea on which my plans h
Farthest north; being the record of a voyage of exploration of the ship "Fram" 1893-96, and of a fifteen months' sleigh journey by DrNansen and LieutJohansen . ons for the trip. Hansen must see about ap-pointing another meteorological assistant. Tuesday, November 20th. This evening I deliveredan address to the whole ships company, in which I an-nounced the determination that had been arrived at, andexplained to them the projected expedition. First of all,I briefly went through the whole theory of our under-taking, and its history from the beginning, laying stresson the idea on which my plans had been built up—namely,that a vessel which got frozen in north of Siberia mustdrift across the Polar Sea and out into the Atlantic, andmust pass somewhere or other north of Franz JosefLand and between it and the Pole. The object ofthe expedition was to accomplish this drift across theunknown sea, and to pursue investigations there. Ipointed out to them that these investigations wouldbe of equal importance whether the expedition actuallypassed across the Pole itself or at some distance from from our experiences hitherto, we could not en- vO.
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