Finn Malmgren
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Finn Adolf Erik Johan Malmgren (9 January 1895 – c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".) was a Swedish meteorologist and Arctic explorer.
Biography
Malmgren studied in Gothenburg, Sundsvall, and Stockholm. In 1912, he began his studies at Uppsala University where he received a bachelor's degree in 1916. In 1917, Malmgren became assistant to professor Axel Hamberg in his observatory at Pårtetjåkko; in 1920, he returned to the meteorological institute in Uppsala and a year later was appointed assistant professor at Otto Pettersson's hydrographic institute for oceanic studies on an island in the Gullmarsfjord.
From 1922 to 1925, Malmgren participated in the expedition of Roald Amundsen and Harald Ulrik Sverdrup in the Arctic, on board the Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".. In 1926, he was on board the Italian airship Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". which overflew the North Pole, where he used scientific instruments from František Běhounek.
In early 1927, he was decorated as a Commander of the Order of St. Olav.[1]
In 1928, the scientist joined the expedition of Umberto Nobile with the airship Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".. During the third flight, on 25 May, the airship crashed and several members of the expedition were stranded on floating ice, Malmgren with an injured shoulder among them. On 30 May, Malmgren together with Italian officers Filippo Zappi and Adalberto Mariano, decided to walk back to Kings Bay for help.[2] On 15–16 June, Malmgren collapsed and asked to be left behind. On 11 July, Soviet pilot Boris Chukhnovsky from the icebreaker Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". sighted Mariano and Zappi and also Malmgren's body. Mariano and Zappi were rescued the next day; Malmgren's body was never found.[3]
The circumstances of Malmgren's death remain unclear. In the press Zappi and Mariano were suspected of abandoning Malmgren and even of cannibalising him.[4]
References
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- ↑ "Norge"-mannen Malmgren kommandør av St. Olav, Arbeideren, 28 January 1927, p. 1.
- ↑ P. P. Alfei, Finn Malmgren and polar exploration, "Polar Record", 60, 2024,https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/polar-record/article/finn-malmgren-and-polar-exploration/11950FF338EB7661D859FB355B38A872
- ↑ AERONAUTICS: Dead, Missing. Tme. 23 July 1928.
- ↑ For example Time in August 1928 reports the suspicions around Zappi. INTERNATIONAL: Ring Around Nobile. Tme. 6 August 1928.
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External links
- Finn Malmgren and polar exploration, https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/polar-record/article/finn-malmgren-and-polar-exploration/11950FF338EB7661D859FB355B38A872
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