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Updated: July 22, 2026

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.

Jules Verne - Celebrated Travels and Travellers: Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century