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Airship Italia was a semi-rigid airship used by Italian engineer Umberto Nobile in his second series of flights around the North Pole. It crashed in 1928, with one confirmed fatality from the crash, one fatality from exposure while awaiting rescue, and the disappearance (and presumed death) of six...

MEDIA RELASE FROM: www.gov.gs/south-georgia-mapping-stamps/ 70p – Cook Map 1775 and HMS Resolution South Georgia was first sighted looming out of the stormy seas of the south Atlantic by a London merchant Anthony de la Roche in 1675. However, he did not brave a landing on the rocky shores and...

Italy probably will issue a stamp about the Dirigibile Italia in the 90th anniversary of its tragic flight over the North Pole. Italy already issued an aerogram in 1978 on this theme (photo below)   Source: Vaccari news (ITA)