‘Andree and Fraenkel stood looking at it, as if the first to arrive at the scene of a disaster or a remarkable anomaly, while Strindberg walked off on the ice and took photographs of it’. from The Ice Balloon by Alec Wilkinson. In 1897, the race to reach the Geographic North Pole was still an open contest.

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Previous explorers had tried to reach the pole … Although the team did not reach the North Pole, or even get near it, the expedition of the Ornen was a pioneering use of aviation in polar exploration. Further Reading on Salomon August Andrée The best English-language biography of Andrée appears in the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography, eds., Andrée's Story: The Complete Record of his Polar Flight, 1897 (1930). But that one-in-four chance of success didn’t deter Swedish explorer S.A. Andree, who in 1897 attempted the most unlikely means of reaching the North Pole: by hydrogen balloon. What makes this more than another adventure story is Wilkinson’s exploration of mankind’s compulsion to reach the extreme points of the Earth, despite all the absurd and obvious risks.

Along with him on the trips was Knut Fraenkel and Nils Strindberg. They departured from Svalbard in July 1897. After only two days the balloon lost hydrogen and stranded on the ice. The indirect cause of death of the three members of the Andrée balloon expedition on White Island in early October 1897 was the ice drift during their attempted retreat after the forced landing at 82°56′N 29°52′E.

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On October 18, 1854, Swedish engineer, physicist, aeronaut and polar explorer Salomon August Andrée was born. Andrée died while leading an attempt to reach the Geographic North Pole by hydrogen balloon.The balloon expedition was unsuccessful in reaching the Pole and resulted in the deaths of all three of its participants.. Introducing Auguste Andrèe On July 13, 1897, the balloon of S. A. Andrée’s Arctic Balloon Expeditions crashed on the pack ice.

Expédition polaire Andrée, 1897 / cliché Alexis Machuron. Summary Two men standing on ice in front of boat, during polar expedition of Salomon August Andrée. Contributor Names Machuron, Alexis, photographer Created / Published

Ingenjören Axel Stake – som alltså tog dessa bilder – ansvarade för vätgasproduktionen till ballongen Örnen på Danskön, nära Spetsbergens kust. The explorers knew who it was: Salomon August Andrée, the Swedish engineer who was last seen in 1897 — 33 years earlier—attempting to cross the North Pole in a hydrogen balloon with two companions. While all three men died, 93 photographs that document their doomed expedition survived. 1. A Quick Float Over a Frozen Hellscape ANDRÉES POLAREXPEDITION 1897.

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Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897 was an effort to reach the North Pole in which all three Swedish expedition members – S. A. Andrée, Knut Frænkel, and Nils Strindberg – perished.

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Andrée's Balloon Expedition Towards the North Pole. 129.00 kr. The story of Salomon August Andree`s balloon expedition towards the North Pole in 1897.

Aviation. Aircraft. S.A. Andree Arctic Balloon Expedition, 1897. Advertising. Salomon August Andrée (October 18, 1854, Gränna, Småland – October 1897), during his lifetime most often known as S. A. Andrée, was a Swedish engineer, One of the most captivating polar expeditions to take place during the heroic age was Swedish engineer Salomon August Andrée's attempt to reach the North On 11th July 1897 the three participants – Salomon August Andrée, Nils Strindberg and Knut Fraenkel – left Svalbard in a balloon, headed for the North Pole, Polar expedition.

Salomon August Andrée Polar Expedition, July 14th 1897. Courtesy Gränna Museum, Sweden. On August 1st, calculating the expedition's location, Strindberg

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1 A Quick Float Over a Frozen Hellscape North Polar expedition of Salomon August Andrée, Swedish balloonist, in 1897: dismantling balloon hangar on day of departure] Contributor Names Machuron, Alexis, photographer Created / Published 1897.