11 September 1900: The Polar Star concludes the Arctic campaign

(To Marina Militare)
11/09/15

Tuesday - The Stella Polare schooner joins Kristiania and ends the Arctic campaign. The scientific and geographical implications achieved mainly during the whole year at the Teplitz bay in the field of meteorology, gravity, magnetism and the study of tides, as well as mineralogical collections and polar botany, are important.

This will be the contribution given by Luigi di Savoia and the Marina to the image of the country.

[In the expedition the vessel lieutenant Francesco Querini will be lost in the Arctic pack, in his memory in his hometown of Venice, in the 1905, thanks to the interest of Luigi di Savoia, a Napoleon will be erected in the Napoleonic gardens of the island of S. Elena. marble monument by sculptor Achille Tamburtini and the Royal Canottieri Company "F.Querini", one of the most prestigious national educational and sporting societies, still in fruitful activity]