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IN the summer of 1931, three expeditions using very different equipment visited adjacent regions of the arctic, and Prof. H. U. Sverdrup has summarised the preliminary results obtained and compared the usefulness and prospects of the different methods employed. The Swedish-Norwegian party under the leadership of Prof. H. Wilson Ahlmann relied upon the old proved technique and carried out oceanographical work from the Quest in the neighbourhood of Franz Josef Land and Spitsbergen (North-East Land) together with dog and sledge journeys across North-East Land, which was shown not to be covered with a continuous ice sheet as formerly believed, but to be divided into two ice areas by a broad ice-free valley. Large geological and botanical collections were made, and the study of these and of the meteorological and oceanographical observations is proceeding.
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H., L. Three Arctic Expeditions in 1931. Nature 130, 11–13 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130011a0
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