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nature 131, 359-359 (11 March 1933) | doi:10.1038/131359a0
Voyage Around Franz Josef Land
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THE remarkable feat of circumnavigating the ice-girt Franz Josef Land in a small motor vessel is reported by Science Service of Washington, D.C. Prof. N. N. Subov, arguing from temperatures in the Barents Sea in recent years that the arctic branch of the North Atlantic drift was unusually warm and would reduce the amount of ice around Franz Josef Land, set out last August from Murmansk in a hundred ton motor boat with 3Q days' fuel and 40 days' stores. The tour, which was made from east to west, actually took thirty-four days.
