150 yeas ago

On 4 May  1872 Professor A.E. Nordenskiöld and his team set off from Gothenburg, Sweden towards Svalbard. After spending a challenging winter in Svalbard the team set off on the 6th of May to attempt to be the first team to ever reach the North Pole
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Today

Now, 150 years later, a science expedition team will follow in the same path as of professor Nordenskiöld to research and document the changing climate in the Arctic. Will it even be possible to retrace his footsteps?
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Carnegies involvment

David Carnegie Jr, the founder of what is today Carnegie Investment Bank (Carnegie) was one of the funders of the original Swedish Polar Expedition of 1872-1873. And history repeats itself for the Jubilee Expedition.
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150 years ago the first expedition sets of from Gothenburg, Sweden towards Svalbard.
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Total of 7 people in the team 2 Climate Scientists, 1 Archaeologist, 2 Guides, 2 Film Makers
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The expedition are expected to take 25 days

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A science expedition team will follow in the same path as of professor Nordenskiöld to research and document the changing climate in the Arctic. Will it even be possible to retrace his footsteps? The team will set off on an unsupported expedition and expect to be out for approx. 25 days to complete the journey and conduct climate science to compare findings today with those made by Prof. Nordenskiöld 150 years ago.

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