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| PolarFlight Online |
| North Polar Regions News and Information Magazine |
| FALL-WINTER |
| Index |
| New Features for Fall-Winter |
| New Section: FRANZ JOSEF LAND - Map and Fact Sheet. |
| New!! 90º NORTH. A series of short articles with a North Polar |
| Regions theme. This issue's featured articles: |
| Umberto Nobile - The North Pole Flights |
| The 1928 Crash of the Airship Italia - A Pictorial History |
| Who "Owns" the North Pole? |
| Who Was First at the North Pole - an Historical Perspective |
| FEATURED BOOK. TRIAL BY ICE chronicles the disastrous 1871 |
| Polaris expedition to the North Pole. Early into the expedition, the |
| leader, American explorer Charles Francis Hall died, now believed to be |
| the result of an intentional poisoning. Later, part of the crew became |
| stranded on an ice floe and drifted south for seven months before they |
| were rescued off the coast of Labrador. |
| POLAR PIONEERS. A series of short biographical sketches of polar |
| exploration personalities. This issue's featured personality is |
| Norwegian polar aviation pioneer, HJALMAR RIISER-LARSEN. |
| Two previous Polar Pioneers: |
| LOUISE ARNER BOYD, Arctic Explorer |
| WALTER WELLMAN, Polar Airship Pioneer |
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| Monthly Features |
| GLOBAL LINKS. Some useful global links including, GMT/UTC clock |
| and time zone converter, currency converter, international postage |
| rates, translators, and more . . . |
| NORTHERN WEBCAMS AND WEATHER. Webcams and |
| weather reports and forecasts from the Svalbard Archipelago. |
| POLAR NEWS AND INFORMATION SOURCES. A variety of polar |
| links, including online polar newspaper, polar search engines, and new |
| and unusual polar websites. |
| EXPEDITION 2003. Upcoming north polar regions expeditions and tours |
| for the 2003 season. |
| POLAR CIRCLE. E-mail news and discussion list. For details and a free |
| subscription, click on the link. |
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| PolarFlight Research Forum Online Publications |
| AERIAL EXPLORATION OF THE NORTH POLAR REGIONS. |
| Solamon Andrée tried to reach the pole by balloon in 1897 and |
| disappeared over the polar ice pack; Walter Wellman tried it by airship |
| in 1907 and 1909, but was unsuccessful; finally, the airship Norge over- |
| flew the North Pole in 1926 . . . or did Richard Byrd reach the pole by |
| airplane just days earlier? All about the aerial exploration of the North |
| Polar Regions, 1897 - 1939. |
| THE 1931 POLAR FLIGHT OF THE AIRSHIP GRAF ZEPPELIN. |
| It should have been one of history's great flights. But a planned |
| rendevous at the North Pole between the Graf Zeppelin and the |
| submarine Nautilus failed to materialize. Instead, a Russian icebreaker |
| at Franz Josef Land was substituted for a first-ever exchange of mail in |
| the far north and the flight is best known now for the Zeppelin mail it |
| carried. Long forgotten is the massive aerial survey and mapping of the |
| Russian Arctic that the flight accomplished. |
| THE NORTH POLAR REGIONS. All about the North Geographic Pole, |
| the North Magnetic Pole, and the North Polar Regions; an extensive |
| geographic and navigational study. |
| THE COOK-PEARY NORTH POLE CONTROVERSY. Who was first |
| at the North Pole, Frederick Cook or Robert Peary . . . or neither one? |
| The debate goes on; some new thoughts on an old controversy. |
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