Polar Expedition Austro-Hungarian Navy
austro-hungarian ships , naval personnel involved in arctic exploration, discovering franz josef land during expedition lasted 1872 1874.
led naval officer karl weyprecht , infantry officer , landscape artist julius payer, custom-built schooner tegetthoff left tromsø in july 1872. @ end of august got locked in pack-ice north of novaya zemlya , drifted hitherto unknown polar regions. on drift when explorers discovered archipelago named after emperor franz joseph i.
in may 1874 payer decided abandon ice-locked ship , try return sledges , boats. on 14 august 1874 expedition reached open sea , on 3 september set foot on russian mainland.
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