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THE plans of the Oxford University Arctic Expedition, 1935-36, were briefly outlined in an article which appeared in NATURE of April 20, 1935, p. 604. The Expedition returned to England in September last after a stay of fourteen months in the barren North-East Land. The country, which is somewhat larger than Wales, has the greater part of its interior covered by ice cap; its coasts are broken up by many deep fjords which are divided one from the other by rocky promontories from which the ice covering has long since disappeared. The north coast, which fringes the Polar Ocean, was practically unknown, while there was also little knowledge of the east coast, which is made up of an almost continuous stretch of ice cliffsthese being the largest expanse outside the Antarctic.
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Glen, A. The Oxford University Arctic Expedition, 1935–36. Nature 139, 10–12 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139010a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/139010a0