S.A. Andrée with two others took off for the North Pole on July 11, 1897 but the balloon lasted only 3 days and they eventually died on the ice.

Virgohamna

Virgohamna (English: Virgo Bay) is a small bay on the northern coast of Danskøya, an island off the northwestern coast of Spitsbergen, the main island of the Svalbard archipelago. The bay is named after the S/S Virgo, the vessel of Swedish engineer and explorer Salomon August Andrée's 1896 expedition.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgohamna
• Page 124 - Wilkinson, A., 2012, The Ice Balloon: S. A. Andree and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 239p.