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Salomon August Andree found 33 years later...
Salomon August Andree found 33 years later...
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August 22, 1930
MEMPHIS EVENING APPEAL, Memphis, Tennessee, August 22, 1930
* Salomon August Andree body found
* North Pole balloon expedition
This 24 page newspaper has a nice six column headline on the front page: "FIND EXPLORER'S BODY AFTER 33-YEAR HUNT" with subheads (see photos). Nice to have this report on the front page and very unusual for such a nice headline here as well. Nice for display.
Other news of the day. Light browning with little margin wear and chipping, irregular at the spine, otherwise good condition.
wikipedia notes: Salomon August Andrée (October 18, 1854 – October 1897), during his lifetime most often known as S. A. Andrée, was a Swedish engineer, physicist, aeronaut and polar explorer who perished while leading an attempt to reach the Geographic North Pole by hydrogen balloon. Although unique, the balloon expedition was ultimately unsuccessful in reaching the Pole and resulted in the deaths of all three of its participants.
Until Andrée's last camp was found in 1930, what could have happened to the expedition was the subject of myth and rumours. In 1898, eleven months after Andrée's first sighting of White Island (which he called New Iceland) a Swedish polar expedition lead by A G Nathorst was passing by just 1 km off shore the camp, but the weather stopped them from getting ashore. Already around this time, it was noticed that a heavy storm had been raging and that the expedition had lost the steering lines at departure, and experienced polar explorers surmised already before 1930 that the expedition couldn't have got very far and had likely been forced down on the ice. Finally the remains of the three men were found in 1930 by the Norwegian Bratvaag Expedition which picked up remains including two bodies. A month later the ship M/K Isbjørn, hired by a newspaper, made additional finds, among them the third body. Several note books, diaries, photographic negatives, the boat and many utensils and other objects were recovered. The homecoming of the bodies of Andrée and his colleagues Strindberg and Frænkel was a grand event. King Gustaf V delivered an oration, and the explorers received a funeral with great honors. The three explorers were cremated and their ashes interred together at the cemetery Norra begravningsplatsen in Stockholm.
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