Airships in the Arctic

• 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

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.