Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition
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Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition
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Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897 was a failed Swedish effort to reach the North Pole, resulting in the deaths of all three expedition members, S. A. Andrée, Knut Frænkel, and Nils Strindberg. Andrée, the first Swedish balloonist, proposed a voyage by hydrogen balloon from Svalbard to either Russia or Canada, which was to pass, with luck, straight over the North Pole on the way. The scheme was received with patriotic enthusiasm in Sweden, a northern nation that had fallen behind in the
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Failed attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9e%27s_Arctic_balloon_expedition
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2006-02-25T01:11:49Z
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2024-08-27T12:15:11Z
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