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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS BY SUBJECT, Exploration, Sweden, Salomon August Andrée (1854-1897), the Discovery of the Bodies of Andrée, Nils Strindberg (1872-1897) and Knut Frænkel (1870-1897) of the Arctic Balloon Expedition of 1897, Bronze Medal, 1930, by Alfred Ohlson, conjoined busts of Andrée, Strindberg and Frænkel right, rev overhead map of Spitzbergen, Svalbard and Kvitoya, on which the path of the expedition is delineated, 56mm. Extremely fine and rare.
The Arctic Balloon Expedition of 1897 was an ill-fated attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. Andrée had proposed a voyage by hydrogen balloon from Svalbard to either Russia or Canada which, with luck, would pass straight over the North Pole. It was not to be and all three perished. The medal commemorates the discovery of their remains.

Estimate: £120-150