EXPEDITIONS · 1897
Danes Island (Danskøya), Svalbard, Norway
Salomon August Andrée’s balloon, the Örnen, came down on the ice after two days. In 1930 their bodies, diaries and even developable film were found on Kvitøya.
The story, as a puzzle
A balloon for the Pole.
On 11 July 1897, three Swedes lifted off from a wooden hangar on this Arctic island in a hydrogen balloon, hoping to drift over the North Pole. They vanished; their last camp was found 33 years later. Pin the island.
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