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Horn rode to shore with the Bratvaag's captain, who said that two sealers dressing walruses had grown thirsty and gone looking for water. By a stream, Horn wrote, they found “an aluminum lid, which they picked up with astonishment,” since White Island was so isolated that almost no one had ever been there. Continuing, they saw something dark protruding from a snowdrift--an edge of a canvas boat. The boat was filled with ice, but within it could be seen a number of books, two shotguns, some clothes and aluminum boxes, a brass boathook, and a surveyor's tool called a theodolite. Several of the objects had been stamped with the phrase “Andrée's Pol. Exp. 1896.” Near the boat was a body. It was leaning against a rock, with its legs extended, and it was frozen. On its feet were boots, partly covered by snow. Very little but bones remained of the torso and arms. The head was missing, and clothes were scattered around, leading Horn to conclude that bears had disturbed the remains.
He and the others carefully opened the jacket the corpse was wearing, and when they saw a large monogram A they knew whom they were looking at--S. A. Andrée, the Swede who, thirty-three years earlier, on July 11, 1897, had ascended with two companions in a hydrogen balloon to discover the North Pole.
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Balloon ascensions, Explorers, Biography, Discovery and exploration, Exploration, Balloons, Balloon ascensions--Arctic regions, Arctic regions, discovery and exploration, Swedish, History, Discoveries in geography, Swedish Discovery and exploration, Geography, New York Times reviewed, Andree, salomon august, 1854-1897, Polar regions, discovery and explorationPlaces
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