Landing in Spitsbergen

— Date of event: Sunday 06, May 1928 —

Airship Italia lands at Kings Bay in Spitsbergen
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Airship Italia lands at Kings Bay in Spitsbergen

In the early afternoon, the Italia landed at Kings Bay, a mining community in northwest Spitsbergen (nowadays known at Ny-Alesund).

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source: https://www.hiddeneurope.eu/nobile-italia-mission-landing-in-spitsbergen

This article was published in Polar Quest: Nobile.

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Nicky Gardner and Susanne Kries manage hidden europe, a Berlin-based editorial bureau that supplies text and images to media across Europe. Together they edit hidden europe magazine. Nicky and Susanne are dedicated slow travellers. They delight in discovering the exotic in the everyday.