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Picture of the day
A
photochrom
of the base at
Spitsbergen
,
Norway
, from which
S. A. Andrée
launched his ill-fated
1897 Arctic balloon expedition
, an attempt to reach the
North Pole
via hydrogen balloon, in which all three crew members died. They survived for three months after their crash, but their remains were not discovered until 1930.
Image credit:
Detroit Publishing Co.
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