Payer Weyprecht Expedition

The Tegetthoff with her crew of 25 left Tromsø, Norway in July 1872.
At the end of August she got locked in pack ice north of Novaya Zemlya
and drifted to hitherto unknown polar regions.
While drifting, the explorers discovered an archipelago which they named Franz-Josef Land
after Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph I.
Payer led several sledge expeditions to explore the new-discovered lands,
on one of them reaching 81° 50′ North.
In May 1874 boat captain Weyprecht decided to abandon the ice-locked ship
and try to return by sledges and boats.
On 14 August 1874 the expedition reached the open sea and later Novaya Zemlya
where they were rescued by a Russian fishing vessel.
On 3 September they reached Vardø in Finnmark, Northern Norway.
This movie is made By: Stipan Ujdur and Martin van der Meijde.