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 . robservations, however, were incontestable, and we imme-diately named the land Sverdrup s Island, after its dis-coverer. As there was still a great deal of ice to windward, wecontinued our southwesterly course, keeping as close tothe wind as possible. The weather was clear, and at 8oclock we sighted the mainland, with Dicksons Islandahead. It had been our intention to run in and anchorhere, in order to put letters for home under a cairn
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 . robservations, however, were incontestable, and we imme-diately named the land Sverdrup s Island, after its dis-coverer. As there was still a great deal of ice to windward, wecontinued our southwesterly course, keeping as close tothe wind as possible. The weather was clear, and at 8oclock we sighted the mainland, with Dicksons Islandahead. It had been our intention to run in and anchorhere, in order to put letters for home under a Wiggins having promised to pick them up on hisway to the Yenisei. But in the meantime the wind hadfallen: it was a favorable chance, and time was gave up sending our post, and continued our coursealong the coast. The country here was quite different from not very high, it was a hilly country, with 158 FARTHEST NORTH patches and even large drifts of snow here and there,some of them lying close down by the shore. Nextmorning I sighted the southernmost of the KamenniIslands. We took a tack in under it to see if there were. OSTROVA KAMENNI (rOCKY ISLAND), OFF THE COASTOF SIBERIA animals of any kind, but could catch sight of island rose evenly from the sea at all points, withsteep shores. They consisted for the most part of rock,which was partly solid, partly broken up by the action ofthe weather into heaps of stones. It appeared to be astratified rock, with strongly marked oblique strata. Theisland was also covered with quantities of gravel, some-times mixed with larger stones; the whole of thenorthern point seemed to be a sand heap, with steepsand-banks towards the shore. The most noticeablefeature of the island was its marked shore-lines. Nearthe top there was a specially pronounced one, which waslike a sharp ledge on the west and north sides, andstretched across the island like a dark band. Nearer thebeach were several other distinct o
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