Note 11 — Chapter V · A Hard Struggle
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As will be understood by our later discoveries, my surmises were not quite correct. We really were at that time north or northeast of Wilczek’s Land, which seems to be only a little island. Meanwhile there must have been extensive open water the previous autumn where this ice was formed. But when it is shown later how much open water we saw on the northwest coast of Franz Josef Land even in winter, this can easily be imagined.