Nansen: Farthest North, Vol. I, 1897, S. 24. – Internet Archive “Putting all this together, we seem driven to the conclusion that a current flows at some point from the Siberian Arctic Sea to the east coast of Greenland.”
Nansen: Farthest North, Vol. I, 1897, S. 29. – Internet Archive “to make our way into the current on that side of the Pole where it flows northward, and by this help to penetrate into those regions which all who have hitherto worked against it have sought in vain to reach.”
Nansen: Farthest North, Vol. I, 1897, S. 33. – Internet Archive “If the Jeannette expedition had had sufficient provisions, and had remained on the ice-floe on which the relics were ultimately found, the result would doubtless have been very different from what it was.”
Nansen: Farthest North, Vol. I, 1897, S. 45. – Internet Archive “[…] the ice must go through her, whatever material she is made of.”
Nansen: Farthest North, Vol. I, 1897, S. 59. – Internet Archive “Plan after plan did Archer make of the projected ship; one model after another was prepared and abandoned.”
Nansen: Farthest North, Vol. I, 1897, S. 62. – Internet Archive “should be able to slip like an eel out of the embraces of the ice.”
Nansen: Farthest North, Vol. I, 1897, S. 59. – Internet Archive “[…] a ship which is to be built with exclusive regard to its suitability for this object must differ essentially from any other previously known vessel.”
Nansen: Farthest North, Vol. II, 1897, S. 318. – Internet Archive “At last the marvel has come to pass – land, land! and after we had almost given up our belief in it!”
Nansen: Farthest North, Vol. II, 1897, S. 98. – Internet Archive “[…] and may we meet again in Norway, whether it be on board of this vessel or without her.”
Nansen: Farthest North, Vol. I, 1897, S. 52–53 “It passes comprehension how Nansen could have thus deviated from the most sacred duty devolving on the commander of a naval expedition.”
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Antje Boetius: Farewell, MOSAiC-Team! In: Sonderausgabe der Zeitung des Alfred-Wegener-Instituts, September 2019 (PDF; 3,4 MB). Abgerufen am 12. Januar 2020.
Has Nature Supplied a Route Around the North Pole? In: The New York Times, 13. November 1892. Abgerufen im 2. Mai 2011 “It is highly probable that there is a comparatively short and direct route across the Arctic Ocean by way of the North Pole, and that nature herself has supplied a means of communication across it.”
