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How many years after Andrée's hydrogen balloon disappeared toward the North Pole were the three Swedish bodies finally found?
Andrée launched on 11 July 1897. The bodies were found by a Norwegian fishing crew on Kvitøya in Svalbard on 5 August 1930 — 33 years later. Their cameras' frozen film was developable and 93 photographs of the doomed expedition survived.
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The Three Swedish Engineers Who Sailed for the North Pole in a Hydrogen Balloon in 1897 and Were Found Frozen on White Island Thirty-Three Years Later Salomon August Andrée and two companions launched a hydrogen balloon called the Eagle from Danes Island in Svalbard on 11 July 1897, intending to fly over the North Pole. The balloon crashed onto the ice three days later. The three men spent three months walking to White Island, where they died in early October 1897. Their bodies, their cameras, and their journals were found by a Norwegian fishing expedition in August 1930.
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