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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Chris B, post: 7546350, member: 87179&quot;]Another new one. I was completely unaware of this one. It looks like it is going to be a new research topic for me. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1302111[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Sweden / Norway</p><p><br /></p><p>The Failed Expeditions of 1893 and 1896-1897, White Metal Medal, 1896 [7], by Augustus Högel, Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen (1861-1930)</p><p><br /></p><p>Obverse: port-side portrait of the Fram, medallic insert of Nansen, </p><p>Reverse: Salomon August Andrée (1854-1897), the Arctic Balloon Expedition, the balloon Oernen over partial globe, medallic insert of Andrée</p><p><br /></p><p>Diameter: 50mm </p><p><br /></p><p>(Malpas 156; MH III, 335)</p><p><br /></p><p>Nansen had started on an expedition in 1895 but was forced to abandon ship. He was rescued from Cape Flora in June 1896. He was later (1905) Norway&#039;s first ambassador to England.Bad weather forced the postponement of Andrée&#039;s expedition from 1896 to the following year, when he and two crewmen, Nils Strindberg and Knut Fraenkel, took off from Svalbard on the 11 July and vanished.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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