North Pole Expedition Museum
North Pole Expedition Museum is a museum, at a modelled elevation of 40 m. Møysalen stands 1,148 m to the east-southeast, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Svalbard Museum, a museum 0.1 miles away.
The story
The North Pole Expedition Museum (Luftskipsmuseet på Spitsbergen) is a museum located on the island of Spitsbergen in Longyearbyen, the capital of the Arctic Ocean archipelago Svalbard. It was co-founded by the Italian Stefano Poli and the Norwegian Ingunn Løyning. Plans to open the museum began in 2005. Originally a new building was supposed to be built to house the museum, but following a fallout with one of the share-owners in 2007 this idea was scrapped, and instead the Airship Museum was opened in 2008 in Longyearbyen's former pig farm, which previously had housed the Svalbard Museum as well. The year of opening was chosen due to its significance as the International Polar Year, the 80th anniversary of the Italia's crash, and the 30th anniversary of polar explorer and aviator Umberto Nobile's death. Several descendants of Nobile, and of Roald Amundsen who died during the rescue of the Italia crew, attended the opening ceremony, which was held on 15 November 2008. In July 2012 the museum was relocated, to a newly constructed building closer to central Longyearbyen. There is a long history of aviation in modern Svalbard, documented by the North Pole Expedition Museum. Exhibits include artefacts from, and information relating to, several major expeditions carried out during the exploration of the Arctic region. Among these exploits are the journeys of airships such as the America (several failed attempts to reach the North Pole, 1906–1909), the Norge (first trip to the North Pole and first flight over the polar cap in 1926), and the Italia (and the subsequent rescue effort following its 1928 crash). Also featured is the 1897 expedition of the balloonist Salomon August Andrée, and the attempts to discover its fate. The museum's collection includes a ribbon granted to Nobile by Benito Mussolini, parts of the Norge logbook, aircraft models, international newspaper clippings, and other various objects connected to the expeditions.
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Dates from 2008.
Wikidata Q18796945, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
- Fee
- Yes
- Step-free access
- No
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Sukkertoppen: 1.0 mi
- Adventtoppen: 3.4 mi
- Hiorthfjellet: 3.4 mi
- Trollsteinen: 4.0 mi
- Lars Hiertafjellet: 4.4 mi
- Taubanesentralen: 0.5 mi
- John Munro Longyear memorial: 0.6 mi
- Gruve 1A Amerikagruva: 0.9 mi
- Gruve 1B: 1.8 mi
- Operasion Fritham: 22.1 mi
- Svalbard Husky: 0.4 mi
- Polar bear road sign: 0.9 mi
- Isgrotta på Longyearbreen: 4.3 mi
- Svalbard Husky: 4.7 mi
- Sjampanjeglass: 5.1 mi
- Polar Bear: 0.2 mi
- Perpetual Repercussion: 2.4 mi
- Perpetual Repercussion: 2.4 mi
- Signboard: 2.8 mi
- The Mail Coach: 23.2 mi
- Svalbard Museum: 0.1 mi
- WildPhoto Travel: 0.2 mi
- Hyperittfossen: 11.7 mi
- Frozen waterfall: 19.9 mi
- Gåsøyane fuglereservat: 17.8 mi
- Boulder-stones!: 22.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.6 miles of North Pole Expedition Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Møysalen | ESE 115° | 1,148 m | 15.0 mi |
| Skolten | ESE 109° | 1,130 m | 15.1 mi |
| Helvetiafjellet | E 92° | 1,079 m | 8.3 mi |
| Møysalen | ESE 115° | 1,060 m | 14.3 mi |
| Nordenskiöld Fjellet | SW 227° | 1,051 m | 4.5 mi |
| Håbergnuten | SSW 212° | 1,031 m | 6.7 mi |
| Karl Bayfjellet | S 175° | 1,022 m | 6.5 mi |
| Ringdalsfjellet | S 185° | 1,006 m | 12.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 05:54 | 15:57 | 18:18 |
| June solstice | Midnight sun | — | — |
| September equinox | 06:27 | 16:57 | 19:15 |
| December solstice | Polar night | — | — |
Local time (Arctic/Longyearbyen).
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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