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  • Russia finds last-days log of famed 1912 Arctic expedition [ Georgy Brusilov ]

    09/14/2010 6:51:23 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 4 replies
    PhysOrg ^ | Monday, September 13, 2010 | AFP
    For decades mystery clouded the fate of the adventurer Georgy Brusilov -- captain of the first Russian crew to seek the elusive Arctic trade route from Asia to the West -- inspiring a generation of books and films. But the famed voyagers' remains and a journal -- dated to May 1913 from aboard their vessel, the Saint Anna -- were found this summer on the icy shores of Franz Josef Land, Europe's northernmost land mass... Midway into its epic journey along the Siberian coast, after navigating the perilous Vilkitsky Strait into the Kara Sea, the expedition ran aground on thick...