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Nature 436, 629 (4 August 2005) | doi:10.1038/436629a; Published online 3 August 2005
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Science in culture: Surface tensions
Colin Martin1
Abstract
A reinterpretation, using damaged photographs, of a failed attempt to fly to the North Pole.
Danish artist Joachim Koester recalls an ill-fated attempt to reach the North Pole by hydrogen balloon in his film installation at the 2005 Venice Biennale, Message from Andrée. It was inspired by the story of Swedish engineer Salomon August Andrée, whose balloon, optimistically named The Eagle, crash-landed in July 1897 a few hundred kilometres north of the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, three days after taking off from Danes Island.
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