Amundsen-Ellsworth Polar Flight (1926)

Photographs show preparations, take-off of airship Norge (N1) for first flight to cross the Polar Sea from Spitsbergen over the North Pole to Teller, Alaska, April-May 1926. Special hangar built for the Norge at Kings Bay, Spitsbergen Island, Norway; in flight with members of the crew, including Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth, in rigging; tractor driven by Lt. Bernt Balchen pulling the Norge in from mooring mast; portraits of the airship designer, Umberto Nobile; ice-locked harbor at Kings Bay; dismantled airship, stripped of canvas; etc. Also, crew members arriving in Alaska; Amundsen voting in Nome, Alaska, after the flight.