Italy and Norway celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Norge airship’s Arctic flight

(ANSA) - ROMA, 11 MAG - An Italian delegation and a Norwegian delegation met today in Ny-Ålesund, a thousand kilometers from the North Pole, in the Svalbard Islands, to celebrate, a century later, the Arctic flight of the airship Norge, which reached the North Pole for the first time on May 12, 1926. The flight of the Norge represents one of the most extraordinary feats in the history of polar exploration, accomplished by an Italian-Norwegian crew led by the famous Norwegian explorer Roald Am...

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