Im Februar 1896 veröffentlichte die New York Times den Bericht eines vermeintlichen Agenten Nansens aus Irkutsk, in der von der die Rede war. ###>In February 1896 "The New York Times" ran a dispatch from Irkutsk, in Siberia, from a supposed Nansen agent, claiming that Nansen had reached the pole and found land there.