Excerpt from Arctic Explorations and Discoveries During the Nineteenth Century: Being Detailed Accounts of the Several Expeditions to the North Seas, Both English and American, Conducted by Ross, Parry, Back, Franklin, M'clure, Dr. Kane, and Others; Including the Long and Fruitless Efforts and Failures in Search of Sir John Franklin Russia has observers stationed on the shores of the Arctic Ocean in Siberia - in the Lena Delta, along the Yana River, and in the New Siberian Islands where DE long's party land ed on their way to starvation, cold and death. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.