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The Pole is Impracticable but There is a Land Northward : Austro-Hungarian Pole Expedition and Mapping of the Franz Joseph Land

Austro–Hungarian Pole Expedition (1871, 1872–1874) led by K. Weyprecht and J. Payer resulted with discovery of the Franz Joseph Land. On that occasion, first maps of Franz Joseph Land were created. The purpose of this work is to analyze Payer's and Weyprecht’s original maps, the methods by which they were made and their influence on the subsequent development of polar cartography.

polar cartography; Franz Joseph Land; Julius Payer

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