The Arctic Museum, illustration of Umberto Nobile’ s adventures

                                          

1.      NANOQ

2.      The Arctic Museum, illustration of Umberto Nobile’ s adventures.

3.   Umberto Nobile, General of the Italian Air Force, began his polar experience in 1926,      designing   and piloting the airship NORGE, and reached the North Pole. It was the first  successful Arctic expedition. Nobile intended to repeat the enterprise in 1928 with the  airship ITALIA and reached  the North Pole again carrying out some important scientific  discoveries. But, on the way back, the bad weather caused the airship to crash on the  ice. The people who survived, including Nobile himself, experienced all the worst   difficulties in the sea sleeping in the famous RED TENT, which had fallen from the airship after the collision.

    The crew was recued by the Russian icebreaker KRASIN.

4.  5. 6. 7. I didn’t expect to find  in the museum  photos, books and other documents which  remembered the famous  striking adventure Nobile achieved.  I was impressed by the way the man who guided us in the visit spoke about this great  adventure. He was very proud when he said that he had met Nobile’s daughter Maria in Milan and then in a window he showed me the photo  of this meeting. He was there, in the photo.

   While visiting all the museum, I felt great admiration for those brave  explorers who             faced  such  enormous  dangers and in some cases  lost their life. 

                                                                                          PATRIZIA COPPOLA