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passed the most northerly point reached by Parry in boats in 1827, 

 emerged from the ice-floe of the Arctic ocean in the late summer of 

 1896 and reached Norway on August 20, about ten days later than 

 Hansen's own arrival with the English expedition from Franz Josef 



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Land. The Fram returned with its frame uninjured and its expedi- 

 tionary force in health, after having covered in its voyage across the 

 unknown Polar sea an enormous area, estimated at fifty thousand 

 square miles. 



