Word: brattvaag
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...Swedish explorer Salomon August Andree and his companions, lost on their poleward balloon flight of 1897, was the Story (TIME, Sept. 1). Its remoteness was heightened to a degree maddening to the Press by the fact that the bodies, relics and Andree's diary were aboard the little sealer Brattvaag which, equipped with only a flimsy receiving radio, might be plodding diligently about its business in the Arctic sealing grounds, oblivious or indifferent to the furore ashore...
...party of Norwegian scientists from the sealer Brattvaag put ashore on desolate White Island northeast of Spitsbergen three weeks ago. About 150 yards from shore they rounded a big rock, stopped, stared with amazement at a litter of cooking utensils laid bare of ice by the August sun. The same question sprang to the mind of each, the same name to all their lips: "Andr?...
...Horn, head of the expedition, took the bodies and paraphernalia aboard the Brattvaag (which is not due in Tromso, Norway until Sept. 10), gave the news to the master of a homeward-bound sealer, who reported the momentous find at Tromso last week...