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摘要

Toward the end of the Arctic spring in 1928, the Italian airship ITALIA, captained by pioneering aviator and polar explorer Umberto Nobile, crashed near Spitsbergen in the Barents Sea. Although Nobile wasn't a particular favorite of the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen-they'd had a bitter and public feud after flying together on an earlier expedition-Amundsen, by then the world's most renowned explorer, climbed into a Latham flying boat in Troms0, Norway, on June 18 to join the search for the missing aviator. Ironically, Nobile was among those rescued, but Amundsen, whose plane crashed, was never heard from again.