File:Victoria Island - Norwegian landing team (1930).png

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5 crewmembers of the Norwegian ship Bratvaag posing next to the symbol which contains a text that Victoria Island is claimed for shipowner Harald M. Leite (and thereby de facto for the Norwegian crown). In the back building material for a hut, which was not constructed due to the impossibility to guard it against storms. The claim, which was put up in secrecy, was never made official by the Norwegian authorities, which secretly supported the claim but perhaps feared a conflict with the Soviet Union.

Two years later on the island was erected a Soviet flag to effectuate a Soviet claim from 1926 (disputed by Norway), annexing the island and Franz Jozefland to the Soviet Union.
Date Taken on 8 August 1930
Source http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic51-4-330.pdf
Author Gunnar Horn (1894-1946)
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5 crewmembers of the Norwegian ship Bratvaag posing

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The Bratvaag Expedition 1930

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8 August 1930

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