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The engineer Salomon August Andrée, Nils Strindberg and Knut Fraenkel rest at a monument erected at the burial of the three polar explorers. Stock Photography.
The text of a diary found on Andrée’s expedition has so far been unreadable due to mold. But now the mystery of the last thing the expedition members wrote can be solved, Vetenskapsradion reports.
The diary was found in the inside pocket of Andrée’s jacket when the dead expedition members were found 90 years ago. It has since been kept in the archives of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, but now images have been obtained using, among other things, X-rays and infrared, visible and ultraviolet light.
– I’ve read things that no one else has read before, says Dr. and author Bea Uusma, who dived on Andrée’s polar expedition to Vetenskapsradion.
Andrée’s polar expedition was a failed Swedish attempt to reach the North Pole in 1897 with a hydrogen balloon. The engineer Salomon August Andrée, Knut Frænkel and Nils Strindberg, died during the expedition and their remains were found in 1930 in Vitön.
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