A “radically new method”: balloon buoy communications of the Baldwin–Ziegler Polar Expedition, Franz Josef Land, June 1902

Polar research

P.J. Capelotti¹ 

[1] Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, Abington College, Abington, PA 09001, USACorrespondence

关键词: Franz Josef Land;    Alger Island;    aeronautics;    archaeology;    balloons;    Baldwin-Ziegler;   

DOI  :  10.1111/j.1751-8369.2008.00045.x

学科分类：自然科学（综合）

来源: Co-Action Publishing

【 摘 要 】

The history of lighter-than-air operations in the Arctic between 1896 and 1930 has focused almost exclusively upon four expeditions. These are the balloon voyage of the Swede Salomon Andrée in 1896–97, and the dirigible expeditions of the American Walter Wellman in 1906–09, the Norwegian Roald Amundsen with the Italian Umberto Nobile in 1926 and the Nobile expedition of 1928. Largely invisible in this lineage are the aeronautical operations of the Baldwin–Ziegler Polar Expedition on Alger Island in the Franz Josef Land Archipelago in 1902. This article traces expedition leader Evelyn Briggs Baldwin’s interest in aeronautical exploration in the Arctic, which began early in life, led to a failed attempt to join Andrée in 1897 and culminated in his use of message buoys attached to balloons in June 1902. These operations, the fate of its balloon buoys and the historical archaeology of Baldwin’s operational bases in Franz Josef Land and north-east Greenland are examined. Baldwin’s poor planning and bad luck wi...

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