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CROATIANS AND THE POLAR EXPEDITION OF 1872
The Austro-Hungarian Arctic Expedition of 1872-74 along with the discovery of Franz Joseph Land would normally pass into history and be recorded as an Austro-Germanic accomplishment were it not for a majority of the participants being Croatian Dalmatians.
Croatia and her Dalmatian coast was under direct Austrian, Hungarian, Turkish and Venetian Rule from 400 to 700 years. Any and all accomplishments whether individual, collective or national were always recorded historically as Austrian, Hungarian, Turkish or Italian.
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The ship Tegetthoff with a crew of 24 including 13 Croatiansfrom Dalmatia set sail on July 13, 1872 for the Arctic.
The Expedition
The British news agency, Reuter, announced that a letter had finally arrived in Vienna.
This letter had an extraordinary history. It had been left in a bottle in the Arctic wastes 106 years before by Austrian explorer Karl Weyprecht, the leader of an expedition to investigate the icy oc