@SFOMuseum Instagram Posts This is SFO Museum's archive of the @SFOMuseum Instagram account. from October 08, 2016

In 1925, the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen (first to the South Pole in 1911) and Lincoln Ellsworth unsuccessfully attempted to fly two Dornier Do J Wal flying boats to the North Pole, as Amundsen described in “My Polar Flight.” In 1926, Amundsen and Ellsworth again attempted to fly over the North Pole, this time accompanied by an Italian crew and Umberto Nobile; they took to the skies in Nobile's airship “Norge” and flew from Spitsbergen, Norway, over the North Pole to Alaska. This image was posted on October 08, 2016.