THE POLAR EXPEDITION.
DR. NANSEN RETURNS WITHOUT REACHING THE POLE. London, August 14. Here F. Nansen, Swedish Polar explorer, has returned to Vardo. He succeeded in reaching latitude 86deg. 14min., which is four degrees further north than any previous expedition penetrated. His ship, Frain, was abandoned in Autumn last year, and the crew wintered in Franz Joseph Land. Their food was bear's flesh and whale blubber. The attempt to drift across the pole failed. Nansen is coming home in the steamer Windward belonging to the Jackson-Harmnsworth Polar expedition.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 95, 15 August 1896, Page 2
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88THE POLAR EXPEDITION. Hastings Standard, Issue 95, 15 August 1896, Page 2
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