| Tittel: | The Wellman polar airship expeditions at Virgohamna, Danskøya, Svalbard : A study in aerospace archaeology | | Ansvar: | P. J. Capelotti | | Forfatter: | Capelotti, P. J.  | | Materialtype: | Bok | | Signatur: | Digital PDF | | Utgitt: | Oslo : Norsk Polarinstitutt, 1997 | | Omfang: | 101 s. - ill. | | ISBN/ISSN: | 8276661270 | | Klassenummer: | 919.84 | | Emneord: | Arkeologi / Arktis / Luftskip / Norsk Polarinstitutt / Polarekspedisjoner | | Stikkord: | archaeology / arkeologi / arktis / expeditions / geografi/historie / luftreiser / luftskip / nordpolen / oppdagelsesreiser / svalbard | | Personer som emne: | Walter Wellman | | Geografiske emneord: | Arktis / Nordpolen / Norge / Svalbard | | Note: | Boken ligger kun som nedlastbar PDF på høyre side. | | Innhold: | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Between 1896 and 1928, eight attempts were made to fly from the Norwegian Arctic archipelago of Svalbard to the North Pole in balloons and airships. The Swedish engineer Salomon A. Andree attempted the flight in the free-floating balloon Omen in 1896 and again in 1897; a journalist from Chicago tried in an airship called America in the summers of 1906, '07, and '09; the Norwegian explorer Capt. Roald Amundsen achieved the Pole in the dirigible Norge in 1926; and the Italian airship designer and pilot Gen. Umberto Nobile reached the Pole two years later in the airship
Italia.*
Three airships failed on their way to the Pole, the Italia crashed on its way back, the Norge succeeded in flying the entire Polar Sea, and three expeditions never got off the ground. Two of the failures and one of the never-got-off-the-grounds belong to the journalist from Chicago, an all-but forgotten American named Walter Wellman. Wellman's spectacular failures created an as yet unwritten catalogue of archaeological remains relating to the first attempts at scientific aerial exploration in the Arctic.
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