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"Then, Jozef Mazzini had been standing in front of the 110 feet high mooring-mast of Ny Ålesund, an obelisk made of metal struts. Here, Amundsen and Nobile had moored their airships "Norge" and "Italia". It rose into the arctic sky as always."
from: Christoph Ransmayr, "Die Schrecken des Eises und der Finsternis" |
The picture, taken in 1939, shows the wooden carcass of the big Zeppelin hangar just outside Ny Ålesund, Spitzbergen. It was destroyed during the Second World War. In the pre-war years, local people used to sell pieces of cloth from the decaying building to tourists.