The Bratvaag Expedition was a Norwegian expedition in 1930 led by Dr. Gunnar Horn, whose official tasks were hunting seals and to study glaciers and seas...
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West Camp 1930: Bratvaag Expedition, led by Gunnar Horn to Franz Josef Land, found long lost remains of Salomon August Andrée's expedition 1930–1931: British...
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of the expedition's final resting place on Kvitøya by the crews of two ships, the Bratvaag and the Isbjørn. The Norwegian Bratvaag expedition, studying...
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remnants of the camp were finally found in 1930 by the Norwegian Bratvaag Expedition, which picked up remains, including two bodies. A month later the...
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years. A 1929 Norwegian attempt to establish a base failed. The 1930 Bratvaag Expedition was the last Western European presence on the islands until 1990...
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The ship MS Bratvaag arrived at Victoria Island on 8 August 1930. At 04:30 a group of seven men went ashore, among them the expedition leader Gunnar...
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North Pole (section MLAE 2009 Expedition)
after their crash. In 1930 the remains of this expedition were found by the Norwegian Bratvaag Expedition. The Italian explorer Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the...
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Bratvaag Expedition visited the archipelago, but was asked by Soviet authorities to respect Soviet territorial water in the future. Other expeditions...
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named after geologist and Arctic explorer Gunnar Horn, leader of the Bratvaag Expedition to Kvitøya in 1930. Andréeneset "Hornodden (Svalbard)". Norwegian...
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reach populated areas. When the remains of the expedition were discovered by the Bratvaag Expedition in 1930, five exposed rolls of film were found,...
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shortly afterwards. The remains of the expedition were found by accident by the Norwegian Bratvaag Expedition on 6 August 1930. Andrée and Strindberg...
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The Jackson–Harmsworth expedition of 1894–1897 to Franz Josef Land was led by British Arctic explorer Frederick George Jackson and financed by newspaper...
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renowned as the leader of the Bratvaag Expedition that found the long-lost remains of S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897 at Kvitøya in 1930...
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increasingly right-wing direction of the party under Alfred Hugenberg. The Bratvaag Expedition reached Victoria Island, and encounters a sealing ship headed for...
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Kvitøya (section Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition)
fate of the expedition for many years was one of the great mysteries of the Arctic, until its remains were discovered by the ship Bratvaag in 1930, over...
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Pole expedition, and named after American Arctic explorer Charles Francis Hall. It was the first island of the Franz Josef group that the expedition discovered...
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expedition led by Hagbord Ekerold and accompanied by Swiss mountaineer and glaciologist Paul Louis Mercanton. The expedition set sail from Bratvaag aboard...
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