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Bea Uusma embarks on a new polar expedition to Vitön

» Updated: 16 July 2024, 15:28

» Published: 17 June 2024

Bea Uusma embarks on a new polar expedition to Vitön
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The doctor and author Bea Uusma continues her investigations into the fate of the Andrée expedition. In August, she will travel to Vitön together with a scientific polar expedition to conduct an archaeological excavation together with archaeologists, an osteologist, and two archaeological dogs.

The hope is to solve the mystery of how the expedition members died. When the Andrée expedition's final camp was discovered on Vitön in 1930, remains were taken away and subsequently cremated.

"But no excavation of the camp was ever conducted, and I have now realised that more than 200 skeletal parts were left behind on the island. A third of the Andrée expedition may still be lying on Vitön. Now we will find those bones," says Bea Uusma in a press release.

Bea Uusma received the August Prize in 2013 for her previous book, "The Expedition", on the same subject. The new investigations will result in a new book in autumn 2025.

"This will be my life's largest project," she says.

Snow, storms, and ice make it impossible to land on Vitön at any other time than a few weeks during the summer.

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