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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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