Göteborg's widow, Carla, who initially believed Lindenbrook was trying to capitalize on her deceased husband's work, learns the truth. Lindenbrook finds potassium cyanide crystals in Göteborg's goatee and concludes that he was murdered. They later find Göteborg dead in his hotel room. They are freed by local Hans Bjelke and his pet duck Gertrud. There, Göteborg and his assistant kidnap and imprison them in a cellar. Lindenbrook and McEwan chase him to Iceland. Professor Göteborg, upon receiving correspondence from Lindenbrook regarding the message, attempts to reach the Earth's center first. After translating the message, Lindenbrook immediately sets off with Alec to follow in the Icelandic pioneer's footsteps. Lindenbrook and Alec discover that it was left by a scientist named Arne Saknussemm, who, almost 300 years earlier, had found a passage to the center of the Earth by descending into the volcano Snæfellsjökull, in western Iceland. Finding the rock unusually heavy, Lindenbrook discovers a plumb bob inside bearing a cryptic inscription. In 1880 Edinburgh, Professor Sir Oliver Lindenbrook, a geologist at the University of Edinburgh, is given a piece of volcanic rock by his admiring student, Alec McEwan, who is in love with Lindenbrook's niece Jenny.
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