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The Fram Museum Fram Museum (right) Norwegian Maritime Museum (left) Gjøa, the first ship to sail through the Northwest Passage. The Fram Museum (Norwegian: Frammuseet) is a museum telling the story of Norwegian polar exploration. It is located on the peninsula of Bygdøy in Oslo, Norway. [1]
Fram was used by Roald Amundsen in his southern polar expedition from 1910 to 1912, the first to reach the South Pole, during which Fram reached 78° 41' S. Preservation of Fram The ship was left to decay in storage from 1912 until the late 1920s, when Lars Christensen , Otto Sverdrup and Oscar Wisting initiated efforts to preserve it via the ...
Fram leaves Bergen on 2 July 1893, bound for the Arctic Ocean Period map showing the regions traversed by the expedition [1]. Nansen's Fram expedition of 1893–1896 was an attempt by the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen to reach the geographical North Pole by harnessing the natural east–west current of the Arctic Ocean.
Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen (Norwegian: [ˈfrɪ̂tːjɔf ˈnɑ̀nsn̩]; 10 October 1861 – 13 May 1930) was a Norwegian polymath and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He gained prominence at various points in his life as an explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian and co-founded the Fatherland League.
Isachsen and Hassel returned to the Fram on June 19, and the accompanying party the next day. Soon the polar spring began: snow and ice melted quickly on the hills, flowers and insects appeared. The Fram team actively began collecting zoobotanical specimens, including trawling the bottom of the fjords. At the same time, seals were harvested.
Fram loaded heavily at the start on its first voyage 1893. The most notable single ship built by Colin Archer was the Fram, used by Fridtjof Nansen in his expedition attempt to the North Pole 1893-96 and by Roald Amundsen's 1911 historic expedition as the first to the South Pole. Fram is now preserved in the Fram Museum on Bygdøy, Oslo, Norway ...
Fram Formation, a sequence of rock strata on Ellesmere Island, Canada; Fram, Rače–Fram, a settlement in Slovenia; Fram (river), a stream in Slovenia; Framlingham, town in England referred to by locals as "Fram" Framingham, Massachusetts, a city often nicknamed "Fram" Framingham State University, a university in that city also often nicknamed ...
Gjøa was displayed in the Norwegian Maritime Museum (Norwegian: Norsk Maritimt Museum) in Bygdøy, Oslo. In May 2009 the Norwegian Maritime Museum and the Fram Museum (Norwegian: Frammuseet) signed an agreement for the Fram Museum of Bygdøy to take over the exhibition of Gjøa. It has been displayed in a separate building at Fram Museum. [17]