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  2. Fram Museum - Wikipedia

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    It honours Norwegian polar exploration in general and three great Norwegian polar explorers in particular – Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Sverdrup and Roald Amundsen. The museum also exhibits images of the fauna of the polar regions, such as polar bears and penguins. [3] The Fram Museum is centred principally on the original exploration vessel Fram.

  3. Nansen's Fram expedition - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Sverdrup's Fram expedition - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. List of museums in Vietnam - Wikipedia

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    Museum of Vietnamese History; Nam Định Textile Museum; Nhatranglive; Museum of Sa Huynh Culture; Museum of Trade Ceramics; Vietnam People's Air Force Museum, Hanoi; Vietnam People's Air Force Museum, Ho Chi Minh City; Vietnam Museum of Ethnology; Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts; Vietnam National Museum of Nature in Hanoi (Bảo tàng ...

  6. Fram (ship) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Colin Archer - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Helmer Hanssen - Wikipedia

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    Roald Amundsen's Antarctic explorer team at the Fram Museum. A statue of Helmer Hanssen together with the rest of Roald Amundsen's Antarctic explorer team is located at the Fram Museum at Bygdøy in Oslo, Norway. [7] A scientific research vessel, the FF Helmer Hanssen, has also been named in his honour. [8] [9]

  9. Hjalmar Johansen - Wikipedia

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    Fredrik Hjalmar Johansen (15 May 1867 – 3 January 1913) was a Norwegian polar explorer. He participated on the first and third Fram expeditions. He shipped out with the Fridtjof Nansen expedition in 1893–1896, and accompanied Nansen to notch a new Farthest North record near the North Pole.