Anna Charlier

Anna Albertina Konstantia Charlier ( born July 25, 1871 in Aby, Gråmanstorp, Sweden, † 1949) was the fiancé of Nils Strindberg, a participant of engineering Andrées balloon expedition to the North Pole in 1897 His stenographic diary was addressed to them and personal written as. Andrée diaries. Anna Charlier and Nils Strindberg became engaged in 1896, eight months before the departure of the expedition to Svalbard. The public hearing in the following years nothing of the expedition and Anna assumed that the participants would be killed in an accident. She emigrated in 1910 to the United States and married there. In 1930 she was coincidentally in Sweden, were discovered as remnants of the expedition. Anna could not attend the funeral and sent only a wreath.

After Anna Charlier's death in 1949, her heart was, according to their dispositions, was buried in a silver box next to the urn Strindberg.

The Annabreen, a glacier on Amsterdamøya, is named after Anna Charlier.

Anna Charlier in film and literature

• In the film, The flight of the eagle is played Anna Charlier by Lotta Larson.

Swell

• Tyrone Martinsson: Nils Strindberg. En biographical om photographers på Andrées polar expedition. Historiska Media, Lund 2006, ISBN 91-85057-60-6.