Finn Malmgren

Malgrem studied in Göteborg, Sundsvall and Stockholm. In 1912 he started to study at the Uppsala University where he received bachelor degree (1916). In 1917 Malmgren became assistant to professor Axel Hamberg in his observatory at Pårtetjåkko; in 1920 returned to the meteorological institute in Uppsala and year later was appointed assistant professor at the Otto Pettersson's hydrographic institute for oceanic studies on an island in the Gullmarsfjord.

During 1922-25 Malmgren participated in expedition of Roald Amundsen and Harald Ulrik Sverdrup in the Arctic, on the board of ship Maud. In 1926 he was on the board of Italian airship Norge which overflew the North Pole. (There he used scientific instruments from František Běhounek.)

In 1928 the scientist joined the expedition of Umberto Nobile with the Airship Italia. During the third flight, on 25 May, the airship crashed and several members of the expedition were stranded on floating ice, Malmgren with injured shoulder among them. On May 30 Malmgren, together with Italian officers Filippo Zappi and Adalberto Mariano, decided to walk back to King's Bay for help. On June 15/16 Malmgren collapsed and asked to be left behind. On July 11 Soviet pilot Chukhnovsky from icebreaker Krasin sighted Mariano and Zappi and also body of Malmgren. Mariano and Zappi were rescued the next day, body of Finn Malmgren was not found. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,786904,00.html

The circumstances of Malmgren's death remain unclear. In the press Zappi and Mariano had been suspected they abandoned Malmgren and even of cannibalism.

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• Photo of Malmgren on the board of airship Italia

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