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IN 1865 Captain Sherard Osborn proposed an exploration of "the blank space around our Northern Pole," by a route which he and his brother Arctic explorers, from considerations based on the history of the subject during three centuries, and on their own experience in the ice, were convinced was the best, and the most sure to lead to useful scientific results.
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MARKHAM, C. Arctic Exploration . Nature 5, 77–79 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/005077a0
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