The Andrée Expedition to the North Pole, 1897 The final journal entry of S A Andrée: “…the middle of the night…shadows on the…
The Andrée Expedition to the North Pole, 1897
The final journal entry of S A Andrée:“…the middle of the night…shadows on the glacier…the flaming outside…not of innocent white doves…carrion birds…bad weather, we fear…to escape…out to sea…crash…grating…driftwood…”The three stranded explorers spent over two months on the pack ice, arriving on Kvitøya (White Island) in the first week of October. This was to be their final destination. Their makeshift camp was discovered by a Norwegian expedition in 1930, and the remains of all three explorers - along with their journals and photographic film - were recovered.
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