The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

the expedition.But from this point they sighted vast northern lands, with mountainsand glaciers.FRANZ-JOSEPH LAND. 181Julius Payer was able to traverse a great part of the archipelago,surveying its main geographical features, and making numerous minor observations.An irregular channel, ramifying right and left into fiords, and known as"Austria Sound," runs south and north between two extensive islands, ZichyFig. 89. Fkaxz-Joseph Land.Scale 1 : 3,000,000.E of PC JA#i-»«/ Osbt** A' JU~.AU*e n S e a A u 9 188 %Ssj-i*«?*.EofGLand on the west, and Wilczek Land on the east. The sound is dotted withnumerous smaller islands, from a lofty headland on the farthest of which Payerand his comrades descried, beyond a vast open sea, the bold outlines of two otherlands, that of King Oscar on the west and of Petermann on the north, the latterstretching beyond the eighty-third parallel, and consequently the nearest Europeanland to the pole that has yet been sighted.VOL. V. O