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SWEDEN: white metal medal (54.07g), 1897, AU

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SWEDEN: white metal medal (54.07g), 1897, AU
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SWEDEN: white metal medal (54.07g), 1897, Malpas-156, 50mm white metal medal by A. Hogel for the Scandinavian Polar Expeditions; ANDREES POLAREXPEDITION / FRÅN GÖTEBORG DEN 7 JUNI 1896, hot air balloon Örnen flying over representation of the earth, centered upon the North Pole; to upper left, bust of Salomon August Andrée right within oval medallion // FRIDTHIOF NANSEN / FRÅN KRISTIANIA DEN 24 JUNI 1893, the Fram under sail left upon the ocean; at center, bust of Fridtjof Nansen facing slightly left within oval medallion, lustrous surfaces, AU. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897 was a failed Swedish effort to reach the North Pole, resulting in the deaths of all three expedition members, S. A. Andrée, Knut Frænkel, and Nils Strindberg. Andrée proposed a voyage by hydrogen balloon from Svalbard to either Russia or Canada, which was to pass, with luck, straight over the North Pole on the way. The scheme was received with patriotic enthusiasm in Sweden, a northern nation that had fallen behind in the race for the North Pole.