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The search for the 1897 Andree expedition to the North Pole.
The search for the 1897 Andree expedition to the North Pole. In 1897 a Swedish explorer named Salomon Andree made an attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. Together with two colleagues, Dr Nils Strindberg and Knut Fraenkel, he took off from Spitzbergen, but the balloon was forced down onto the ice by the weight of ice accumulating on the outside of the balloon in a freezing fog. Rescue attempts failed to find the missing explorers, whose bodies were not located until 1930. Theories as to how they died include exposure, the effects of eating infected polar bear meat, or carbon monoxide poisoning from a faulty stove. Here the captain of the whaler 'Thistle' is being shown the body of one of the carrier pigeons Andree had taken with him.
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AR915996
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Image
Purpose
Public
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3166px × 4449px
Photo Credit
HIP / Art Resource, NY
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19th century
AERONAUTICS
ANDREE
ANIMAL
Ann Ronan Pictures
Arctic
ballooning
Bird
BIRDS
carrier pigeon
color
concept
Dog
ESKIMO
Exploration
Ice
INUIT
Male
Man
Men
NINETEENTH CENTURY
People
Pigeon
Pointing
Print Collector1
ROAD TRANSPORT
SALOMON
Salomon Andree
search party
Searching
Sled
Sleigh
Snow
transport
TRANSPORTATION
Weather