Il sito storico di Virgohamna (Svalbard) e le spedizioni artiche di Andrée e Wellman. Considerazioni a seguito di una ricognizione speditiva con droni ...

The small Danskøya (Danes Island) and Amsterdamøya (Amsterdam Island) are located at the north-western edge of the Svalbard archipelago. Both islands are today completely uninhabited. In 1896 and 1897, Swedish engineer Salomon August Andrée elected the small bay of Virgohamna, on the northern shore...

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Main Author: Casagrande, Gianluca
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana 2020
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spelling ftdatacite:10.13128/bsgi.v2i2.980 2023-08-27T04:03:49+02:00 Il sito storico di Virgohamna (Svalbard) e le spedizioni artiche di Andrée e Wellman. Considerazioni a seguito di una ricognizione speditiva con droni ... Casagrande, Gianluca 2020 https://dx.doi.org/10.13128/bsgi.v2i2.980 https://riviste.fupress.net/index.php/bsgi/article/view/980 en eng Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana https://dx.doi.org/10.13128/bsgi.v2i2 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode CC-BY-4.0 Text article-journal Article ScholarlyArticle 2020 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.13128/bsgi.v2i2.98010.13128/bsgi.v2i2 2023-08-07T14:24:23Z The small Danskøya (Danes Island) and Amsterdamøya (Amsterdam Island) are located at the north-western edge of the Svalbard archipelago. Both islands are today completely uninhabited. In 1896 and 1897, Swedish engineer Salomon August Andrée elected the small bay of Virgohamna, on the northern shore of Danskøya, as a starting point for his tragic attempt to reach the North Pole in a balloon. In 1906, 1907 and 1909 the American journalist Walter Wellman, with his airship “America”, tried unsuccessfully to fly to the North Pole. In year 2000, the Norwegian governor of Svalbard (Sysselmannen) regulated access to the historical site, which can now only be visited with prior, special authorization. During summer 2018, the Polarquest2018 Arctic expedition carried out an aerophotographic survey of the area by means of drones. Without the need of landing any crew nor equipment on the beach, two small quadcopters were launched from the support boat and later returned there at the end of their flights. The survey made ... : Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana, Series 14 Vol 2 No 2 (2019) ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Amsterdam Island Amsterdam Island Amsterdamøya Arctic artiche Danes Island Danskøya North Pole Svalbard Sysselmann* Virgohamna DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Arctic Svalbard Svalbard Archipelago North Pole Andrée ENVELOPE(-61.500,-61.500,-64.516,-64.516) Wellman ENVELOPE(-61.400,-61.400,-64.483,-64.483) Small Bay ENVELOPE(-36.783,-36.783,-54.117,-54.117) Amsterdamøya ENVELOPE(10.833,10.833,79.750,79.750) Danskøya ENVELOPE(10.933,10.933,79.700,79.700) Virgohamna ENVELOPE(10.933,10.933,79.733,79.733)
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description The small Danskøya (Danes Island) and Amsterdamøya (Amsterdam Island) are located at the north-western edge of the Svalbard archipelago. Both islands are today completely uninhabited. In 1896 and 1897, Swedish engineer Salomon August Andrée elected the small bay of Virgohamna, on the northern shore of Danskøya, as a starting point for his tragic attempt to reach the North Pole in a balloon. In 1906, 1907 and 1909 the American journalist Walter Wellman, with his airship “America”, tried unsuccessfully to fly to the North Pole. In year 2000, the Norwegian governor of Svalbard (Sysselmannen) regulated access to the historical site, which can now only be visited with prior, special authorization. During summer 2018, the Polarquest2018 Arctic expedition carried out an aerophotographic survey of the area by means of drones. Without the need of landing any crew nor equipment on the beach, two small quadcopters were launched from the support boat and later returned there at the end of their flights. The survey made ... : Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana, Series 14 Vol 2 No 2 (2019) ...
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author Casagrande, Gianluca
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Il sito storico di Virgohamna (Svalbard) e le spedizioni artiche di Andrée e Wellman. Considerazioni a seguito di una ricognizione speditiva con droni ...
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title Il sito storico di Virgohamna (Svalbard) e le spedizioni artiche di Andrée e Wellman. Considerazioni a seguito di una ricognizione speditiva con droni ...
title_short Il sito storico di Virgohamna (Svalbard) e le spedizioni artiche di Andrée e Wellman. Considerazioni a seguito di una ricognizione speditiva con droni ...
title_full Il sito storico di Virgohamna (Svalbard) e le spedizioni artiche di Andrée e Wellman. Considerazioni a seguito di una ricognizione speditiva con droni ...
title_fullStr Il sito storico di Virgohamna (Svalbard) e le spedizioni artiche di Andrée e Wellman. Considerazioni a seguito di una ricognizione speditiva con droni ...
title_full_unstemmed Il sito storico di Virgohamna (Svalbard) e le spedizioni artiche di Andrée e Wellman. Considerazioni a seguito di una ricognizione speditiva con droni ...
title_sort il sito storico di virgohamna (svalbard) e le spedizioni artiche di andrée e wellman. considerazioni a seguito di una ricognizione speditiva con droni ...
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