ARCTIC CHRONOLOGY

 

A Postal History Gallery of Related Events

Presented by George Hall . . .


The Search for the ITALIA
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 Working copy of radiogram sent from Wiese to Samoylovich on the icebreaker KRASSIN providing the bearings to the icebreaker MALYGIN on 17 June at 24:00h: Latitude 75 45', Longitude 26 59'

 

Working copy of radiogram sent from Wiese on the icebreaker to the AEROARCTIC meeting in Leningrad, attention Nansen..


Expedition by Malygin on rescue of Nobile is greeting you and wish you success.

Wiese
Russian polar exploration students paid considerable respect to the famous Norwegian explorer.

 

Working copy of radiogram sent to the Captain of the CITTA DI MILANO providing the position of the icebreaker MALYGIN and requesting a report on the status of the rescue effort.

Citta di Milano Commandante. Position of Malygin on the seventeenth 24 hours latitude 75 45 longitude 27. Please give us last news Nobile expedition also salvation measures taken. Chief expedition.

Wiese

 

 

Working copy of radiogram to the CITTA DI MILANO Captain Romagna to advise the position of the icebreaker MALYGIN.

Citta di Milano captain Romagna. Malygin heavy icefields position latitude 7633 longitude 2732. Stop. Trying penetrate farther north along east coast Spizbergen.
Wiese

 

Working copy of radiogram sent to Green Harbor, Spitzbergen.

Green Harbour. Nobile relief expedition icebreaker Malygin asks you give four times day namely four ten sixteen and twenty two hours grinwich time your call signals for radio calibration.
Chief Expedition Wiese

 

A working copy of a radiogram sent by Dr. Wiese to the CITTA DI MILANO Captain Romagna reporting the position of the icebreaker MALYGIN on June 20, 1928 to be Latitude 76 48 and Longitude 27 10 and they were in tight packed ice fields. A second section asked for information about the radio on the plane in which Amundsen was flying to the rescue area.

 

 

Working copy of radiogram from Wiese dated June 22, 1928 to Moscow, attn: Unschlicht advising that pilots Babushkin and Lavrov flew to King Karl Island. The weather was clear.

 

 

Working copy of radiogram to the governor of Spitzbergen (Svalbard).

Today thirty minutes past midnight our plane left Hope Island direction King Charles Island. Purpose organization there is oil bases. Except that pilots received instruction look out for Amundsen's plane. Please give us his supposed way also length of his wire. Chief expedition on board Malygin.
Wiese

NOTE: Amundsen's plane was never found and was assumed to have crashed at sea.

 

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