Airships in the Arctic

America, Norge, Italia, and Graf Zeppelin - it was 60 years ago and more that these airships voyaged to the Arctic and explorers such as Walter Wellman, Roald Amundsen, Lincoln Ellsworth, and Umberto Nobile captured the attention of the world. The era of arctic exploration by airship was short, and...

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Published in:ARCTIC
Main Author: Nelson, Stewart B.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1993
Subjects:
Airships
History
Remote sensing
Alaska
Arctic regions
Frantsa-Iosifa
Zemlya
Russian Federation
North Pole
Spitsbergen
Svalbard
Arctic
Nobile
Wellman
Online Access:https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64408
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Summary:America, Norge, Italia, and Graf Zeppelin - it was 60 years ago and more that these airships voyaged to the Arctic and explorers such as Walter Wellman, Roald Amundsen, Lincoln Ellsworth, and Umberto Nobile captured the attention of the world. The era of arctic exploration by airship was short, and for most of the adventurers who flew the hydrogen-filled ships it was a glorious return. For others, there was the ultimate price to be paid. But the challenge of the Arctic, of the North Pole, of being the first was irrepressible.

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