Folder: Drifting

On 20 April 2008, Brazilian priest Adelir Antônio de Carli left Paranaguá (PR), bound for Dourados, in Mato Grosso do Sul. He flew in colourful helium balloons and aimed to stay in the air for 20 hours. The winds carried him into the Atlantic Ocean, communications and navigation failed, and his body was only found, by chance, 3 months later by a ship.

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Fotograma de Caro diario (1993), de Nanni Moretti.

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Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance sinking beneath the pack Ice of the Weddell sea, October 1915. (Frank Wild looks at the the remains of the Endurance.) For five months, they…

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Andree’s expedition route in 1897. Solid line indicates flight, dashed line indicates path on foot. The Örnen departed from Danskøya near Spitsbergen in the Arctic July 11th 1897 and…

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One of the original pictures by Nils Strindberg (1897), after being retouched, and which was published in Andrée’s Story: From the diaries and Journals of S. A. Andrée, Nils…

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Última ascensão do LUSITANO, postal editado à época pela casa Emílio Biel, no Porto. Desaparecimento do “Lusitano”, o balão do Belchior. O balão partiu dos jardins do Palácio…

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T.E. Lawrence (in the middle) on an archaeological site at Carchemish, an important ancient independent city but also having been part of the Mitanni, Hittite and Neo Assyrian Empires,…

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This photo comes from a box containing 22 negatives that was recently found frozen in a block of ice in a hut used first by Robert Falcon Scott on his…