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A month later he started in a sledge, and after a journey of fifty miles he discovered between the mouths of the Lena and Indighirka three large islands, the vast deposits of fossil ivory on which have since become celebrated all over the world. In 1809 Hedenstroem received instructions to make a map of this new discovery.
Wrangell had advanced some 140 miles, and it was the open sea or the polynia as he calls vast expanses of water north of Siberia, the outskirts of which he had reached, the same in fact as that already sighted by Leontjew in 1764, and Hedenstroem in 1810.
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