In the Arctic summer, the sun shines even at midnight. So it was bright as the airship Italia approached the geographic North Pole, motoring at 3,000 feet above the endless pack ice. Below the ship, a ...
Airship Italia moored in King's bay, Spitsbergen island, Norway, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year LV, No 23, June 3, 1928. The Arctic has always had an almost mystical appeal to anyone who’s ...
On May 24, 1928, Gen. Umberto Nobile and his crew aboard the airship Italia—code-named N-4—dropped Italian flags and a small wooden cross given them by Pope Pius XI onto the North Pole from 450 feet ...
In 1928, the Italian airship Italia embarked on an expedition to the North Pole and never returned home. Crashed in the arctic climate, the surviving crew of the Italia were up against a ticking clock ...
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