VI.] TOBIESEN’S WINTERING ON NOVAYA ZEMLYA. -m 
passed the winter of 1865-66 happily, in a house built for the 
purpose on Bear Island, and communicated to the Swedish 
Academy of Sciences a series of valuable meteorological observa¬ 
tions, made during the wintering.^ After 1868 he had made 
several successful vo 3 ^ages to N^ovaya Zemlya, some of which 
were also remarkable from a geographical point of view, and in 
1872 he was also on a hunting expedition to the same regions. 
SIVERT KRISTIAN TOBIESSN. 
Born at 'J romsoe in 1821, died on KoAaya Zemlya in 1873. 
As he could not enter the Kara Sea, he sailed up along the west 
coast, where in the middle of September he was beset in the 
neighbourhood of the Cross Islands. Hence seven of the crew 
travelled south in a boat to seek for a vessel, but Tobiesen him¬ 
self, his son and two men, remained on board. Their stock of 
provisions consisted of only a small barrel of bread, a sack of 
^ Kongl. Svensln Vetenahaps-ahmlemiens ImnclUngar, 18G9. 
