THE AUSTRIAN POLAR EXPEDITION.

Auckland Star, Volume V, Issue 1495, 25 November 1874, Page 2

THE AUSTRIAN POLAR EXPEDITION.

Hamburg dispatch to the London Times o^ September 25th says that at the sitting o^ the Geographical Society, af terJCaptain Wrip" recht, of the Austrian Polar expedition, had spoken, a further account was given of their travels by another member of the expedition. He said they had discovered a sound one hundred miles long and ninety miles in breadth running: northwards and dividing the land into two extensive tracts on the 12th of July in latitude 81 degrees 57 minutes. The expedition halted, but they saw that the land stretched away to the north as far as latitude S3 The explorers came to the conclusion that it was impossible to reach the North Pole iv this direction, and thtt the theory of the existence of a polar sea untenable. Vessels would find no harbor to put into during the winter, and a large expedition, without having a ship in the immediate neighbourhood, would be impracticable, in consequence of the peculiar formation of the tracts of country. A North Pole expedition, in this direction, was therefore hopeless.