Kvitøya
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Kvitøya (English: "The White Island") is an island in the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. It is located at
Kvitøya is a part of the North East Svalbard Nature Reserve.
The island was the final resting place of the Arctic balloon expedition of 1897 organised by S. A. Andrée. The expedition had attempted to overfly the North Pole in a hydrogen balloon, but crashed on the pack ice about 300 km north of Kvitøya on July 14, less than three days after their launch. They reached the island on foot by October 6 and perished there. The remains of the expedition were only discovered by Norwegian whalers in 1930, over thirty years later. Journals and film were recovered at the site.
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