Eduard von Toll, baron and Russian geologist and arctic researcher, travelled in Siberia and on the New Siberian Islands in1885 and 1893. On his last trip he put out two depots for Fridtjof Nansen. Between 1900 and 1902 he headed a large scientific expedition to the New Siberian Islands with the ship Sarja (formerly the Norwegian seal hunting ship «Harald Haarfager»). He disappeared the fall of 1902 during an attempt to go south from Bennet Island.