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...flew across the North Pole with Umberto Nobile and the late Roald Amundsen in the dirigible Norge and who may be a passenger in the submarine, plans to try his craft out under April ice off Halifax. Then he will proceed by way of London, Bergen and Tromso to Spitsbergen, whence he hopes to proceed mostly under water to Bering Sea. (In 1928 he flew an opposite course between those two regions...
...Presented last week by the Geographical Society of Philadelphia. So numerous are his medals that he lumps them thus: Patron's Medal, 1928, by Royal Geographical Society, for work in Polar regions, culminating in (1928) flight from Point Barrow to Spitsbergen; awarded gold medals by American, Belgian, Danish, Cuban Geographical Societies (the Cuban society last week gave a medal to Georges Claude, French scientist who experimentally generates electricity from the heat differences between the surface and bottom waters of Matanzas Bay); silver medals by German Geographical Society and City of Berlin; gold medal by Norwegian and French Aeronautical Societies...
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...
...northernmost Norway, in Barents Sea between Scandinavia and Spitsbergen, in Stockholm and in Oslo last week there was confusion?the confusion that results when the Press sets its pack upon the trail of a remote and elusive news story. The discovery on White Island. Spitsbergen, of the bodies of the 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...
...July 11, 1897 the Oernen (Eagle) with its three occupants cast off from Danes Island, Spitsbergen, sailed north, was lost forever. Of a number of carrier pigeons taken along, one made its way home with a cheery message despatched 12 hr. after the takeoff. A number of message-buoys were also recovered, one as late as September 1912, but only two contained notes, both written prior to the one borne by the pigeon. Since November 1897, numerous expeditions have gone in search of the Andree party. It was rightly assumed that the winds had borne them far east...