have an important bearing upon the weather in Norway, the Norwegian Government has erected a number of meteorological and wireless stations in these regions: Svalbard Radio (1911), Jan Mayen (1921), Myggbukta in East-Greenland (1922), Bear Island (1923), and Torgilsbu in Southeast-Green- land (1932). The Fishery Board in Bergen has sent out a large number of fishery research expeditions to the seas between Nowaya Zemlya and Greenland. In 1930 a Norwegian scientific expedition to Franz Josef Land (in the sealer Bratvdg of Alesund and in command of Dr. Gunnar Horn of the Norges Svalbard- og Ishavs-undersgkelser) discovered on White Island in the eastern part of Svalbard the remains of the Swedish expedition of Andrée, who made an attempt to fly across the Pole in a balloon in 1897. In the Antarctic a number of Norwegian expe- ditions instituted and financed by Consul Lars Christensen (the Odd I, Norvegia, and Thorshavn expeditions 1926-34) have made investigations and discoveries. Large areas of new land have been discovered and partly mapped, and impor- tant oceanographic work has been done. For exploration purposes also aeroplanes were used (flights by Riiser-Larsen and F. Liitzow-Holm). It is not only in Arctic and Antarctic regions that Norwegians have made remarkable journeys of discovery. Christopher Hansteen undertook a 201