19 Months on a Frozen Island – Sailors Who Refused to Surrender to the Arctic

Описание: For 19 months, a small wooden ship and her crew were trapped in the Arctic, locked in solid sea ice around a frozen island with no way to sail home. Temperatures dropped below –40°C, the sun disappeared for months, and the ice slowly crushed their hopes of ever seeing open water again. Instead of giving up, the sailors turned their ship into a camp, hunted on the ice, mapped an unknown archipelago – and finally dragged their boats across the pack ice to escape.

This video tells the true survival story of the Austro‑Hungarian North Pole Expedition and the crew of the barque Tegetthoff, who were frozen in near what we now call Franz Josef Land from 1872–1874. You’ll see how they:

became trapped in Arctic ice and drifted to a “new” frozen island,
endured two polar winters of darkness, scurvy and storms,
decided to abandon their ship and haul three boats across broken sea ice,
and finally reached open water and made it back to civilization.
This is not fiction or a movie plot – it’s based on real expedition reports, journals and later historical research.

If you enjoy real survival stories from the Arctic, Antarctic, oceans and deserts, watch till the end – and don’t forget to like the video and subscribe for more true tales of endurance and exploration.