Expedition to Nordaustland

The­re were six of us on board when we left with the sai­ling boat Arc­ti­ca, which is small, but high­ly sui­ta­ble for the pur­po­se: get­ting to some of the remo­test are­as of the Spits­ber­gen archi­pe­la­go. The idea was to look for fur­ther remains left by the ill-fated Ger­man Schrö­der-Stranz Expe­di­ti­on, who drop­ped four mem­bers, inclu­ding the lea­der, in Duve­fjord in late sum­mer 1912. All four disap­peared and the details of their last jour­ney are still unknown.

Unfor­tu­n­a­te­ly, too soon the ice ent­e­red Duve­fjord and we had to lea­ve too ear­ly in order to make new dis­co­ve­ries. On the other hand, this left us with even more time for our second obli­ga­ti­on, filming arc­tic wild­life. And so we did, with con­si­derable suc­cess.

duve­fjord (gal­le­ry)

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