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 KVITOYA - SVALBARD



K
vitoya is completely covered with ice (White Island) excepted two small rock points.

Kvitoya is only 98 km from Victoria Island in Franz Joseph Land, which is part if Arctic Russia. The distance from Kvitoya to Nordaustlandet is 117 km.

It is in Kvitoya where disappeared, after a long walk on the ices, the three members of expedition to the North Pole in balloon of Andrée in 1897. The bodies of Andrée, Fraenkel and Strindberg were found only 33 years later by a fishing vessel.

 
 
 
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 KVITOYA



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