11 happened September 1900: The Polar Star ends the Arctic campaign

11/09/14

Stella Polar schooner enters Kristiania concluding the Arctic campaign. Important the scientific and geographic implications achieved mainly during the whole year at the bay of Teplitz in the field of meteorology, gravity, magnetism and the study of tides, as well as mineralogical and polar botanical collections.

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]

Source: Military Navy