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Frenkel Knut
(14 .02.1870
Swedish engineer, arctic explorer. Born in Karlstad in the family of a major Corps of work on the construction of roads and waterways. He grew up in the mountainous Jämtland in eastern Sweden, where he acquired an interest in outdoor activities and sports. He later enrolled at the Palmgren School in Stockholm and graduated from the Royal Institute of Technology in 1896 and was preparing to join army engineers when in 1897 the opportunity arose to join the planned S.A. Andre to the North Pole. The third party was Nils Strindberg. Frenkel replaced the meteorologist Niels Gustaf Ekholm, who participated in the training, but gave up at the last moment, criticizing the construction of the balloon. During the expedition, Frenkel had to be responsible for drawing up detailed protocols of everything that was done by the participants. It was planned to reach the Pole within 6 days and reach the Bering Strait. Three short flight reports were received from the expedition. On July 15, 1897, the skipper of the Norwegian vessel Alken shot down the carrier pigeon. A note dated July 13 reported that 250 miles had been overcome, and the flight went southeast. Expedition disappeared. A few years later, five buoys were found in Iceland and Norway, only two had notes. On the Land of King Charles, they found the largest buoy, which Andre was going to throw over the pole. Gradually, the expedition began to be forgotten, and only after 33 years in 1930 its remains were accidentally found on White Island to east of Svalbard.
In the summer of 1930, the Norwegian Institute for the study of
Svalbard and the Arctic Sea sent to the archipelago of Franz Josef
Land a research and fishing expedition on the ship Bratvog, which
was headed by geologist G. Horn. On
the way, the Norwegians disembarked on Bely
Island and found Andre's camp. They
found the remains of Andre and Strindberg, seriously damaged by
bears, notebooks, photographic films (some of which were later saved
and displayed by J. Hertzberg), a sleigh, a sailboat, clothes, guns,
a primus, and many other utensils. Taking
the found, the Norwegians continued their journey to Franz Josef
Land. The surviving diaries managed to restore the history of the balloon crash (see Andre). After cremation, the ashes were buried together in the Norra begravningsplatsen cemetery in Stockholm. Territory in East Greenland. Outlet glacier Von glacier between the mountains Sigurd and Labor. The coordinates are 79° 14.3'N 13° 30'E. |
