28o NEAREST THE POLE 



her with great faciUty, and under serious pressures 

 she rose readily and easily. 



As a sea boat she was equally satisfactory, lying to in 

 the October North Atlantic gale off Resolution Island 

 rudderless under double-reefed foresail, with all the 

 ease and dryness of one of our best Banks fishing 

 schooners. For this the fullest credit is due her builder, 

 Captain Chas. B. Dix, who put his whole heart and 

 years of experience into her construction. 



The main results of the Expedition may be sum- 

 marised as follows: 



First. — ^The attainment of the "highest North" 

 leaving a distance of but 174 nautical miles yet to 

 be conquered this side of the Pole, narrowing the 

 unknown area between my highest and Cagni's to 

 less than 381 miles, and throwing the major remaining 

 unknown Arctic area into the region between the 

 Pole and Bering Strait. 



Second. — The determination of the existence of a 

 distant new land northwest of the northwestern part 

 of Grant Land, probably an island in the westerly 

 extension of the North American archipelago. 



Third. — The distinct widening of our horizon as 

 regards ice and other conditions in the western half of 

 the central Polar Sea. 



Fourth. — The traversing and delineation of the 

 unknown coast between Aldrich's farthest west in 

 1876, and Sverdrup's farthest north in 1902. 



Fifth. — The determination of the unique glacial 

 fringe and floeberg nursery of the Grant Land coast. 



Tidal and meteorological observations have been 

 made, soundings taken in the Smith Sound outlet of 



