In 1926, an international team set out in an airship to make the first flight across the Arctic Ocean. They never realized they may have been about to embark on the real first journey to the North Pole. This is the story of Roald Amundsen, Lincoln Ellsworth, Umberto Nobile, and the airship Norge. Let's Explore!

Chapters:

0:00 Intro
0:20 A Journey Proposed
1:09 Cook, Peary, and Henson
2:22 The Flight Begins
3:15 The Airship Norge
4:06 Byrd and Bennett
5:01 Poleward Bound!
6:23 Finishing the Voyage
7:02 After the Flight
7:39 The Italia
8:28 Conclusion

Some sources:

"Shadow of Norge”: [ Ссылка ]

"Disaster at the Pole: the tragedy of the airship Italia and the 1928 Nobile Expedition to the North Pole" by Wilbur Cross

"My Life as an Explorer" by Roald Amundsen

"First Crossing of the Polar Sea" by Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth

“Land or Ocean? Umberto Nobile Explores the North Pole Terrain” interview of Nobile by Kenneth Leish, Columbia University Oral History Research Office

“The Norge Flight (1926)” by the Fram Museum: [ Ссылка ]

“Who Discovered the North Pole?” by Bruce Henderson, Smithsonian Magazine

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Image Credits:

Amundsen with Plane: By Preus Museum Anders Beer Wilse, CC BY 2.0

University of Copenhagen: By giggel, CC BY 3.0

Select Images of Norge, Polar ice: By Nasjonalbiblioteket, CC BY 2.0

Italia: By Bundesarchiv, Bild 102-05738 / Georg Pahl, CC-BY-SA 3.0 de

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