Word: isbjoern
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Detailed extracts from the diary, radioed from the Isbjoern and relayed by cable (the whole assignment will cost "well into five figures") said the balloon landed three days after taking off from Spitsbergen, that the party then struggled for two months over Arctic ice floes before sighting the glaciers of White Island. To celebrate the finding of land they toasted the King of Sweden and Norway in 1836 wine which he had given them. A month later, although food and ammunition were still plentiful, the men were dead. Guessers last week guessed they 1) froze to death; 2) were poisoned...
...Tromsö the Swedish gunboat Svenskimd waited with the bodies of Andrée and Strindberg for the Isbjoern to arrive with Fraenkel's remains, when it would conduct all three to Stockholm...
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