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K10 Red traversing a shallow creek next to base camp. <p> Hans Utz, Haughton Mars Project 2007</p>
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Panorama from within the crater.
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On our way back from the North Pole we encountered the Yamal, which was on its way to the North Pole. The Yamal has a very distinctive bow design. It is painted to look like a shark's mouth. Watching from the bridge deck of the 50 Years of Victory, we saw the ice breaker at work. The teeth rose and fell relative to the...
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Frans Jozef land, North Pole expedition - solar eclipse 2008
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Wilczek Island is located in the southeast corner of Franz Josef Land, a rocky archipelago in the Barents Sea north of mainland Russia. The island, like most of the neighboring islands is uninhabited. On November 1, 1873, it was the site of the first landing by the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition which disco...
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This rocky island was the site of the first landing of Austrio-Hungarian North Polar Expedition in 1873.
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- Tikhaya Bukhta (Quiet Bay) Hooker Island, Franz Josef Land from the 50 Years of Victory by Ella Derbyshire
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Here is Hooker Island seen from the deck of the 50 Years of Victory. You can see Sedova Station on the point of Tikhaya Bay. The rocky mass to the right of the station is Rabini Rock, which is a remarkable land formation with lots of ledges for nesting sea birds. We approached the rock, but we did not land there. ...
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This rocky, flat island is located among the middle islands in Franz Josef Land in a subgroup called Zichy Land. It was named after William Ziegler who lead the Baldwin-Ziegler North Pole Expedition in the beginning of the 20th Century. There was once an Austrian observing site, Payer-Weyprecht, on the island. We f...
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This is Ziegler Island as we saw it from the bridge deck of the 50 Years of Victory. This was a rather flat island with little snow cover on this late July morning, On our way to the island we encountered a polar bear waiting by a seal hole. We noticed hundreds of seals on the ice around the island. The seals ...
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There are many interesting stories recorded about Arctic exploration, and Cape Tegetthoff is featured in quite a few of them. These rocky spikes were the first piece of Franz Josef Land to be seen by European explorers. They were spotted by Payer and Weyprecht aboard their ship, the Tegetthoff on August 30, 1873, bu...
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