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Notwithstanding his prolific output as a novelist, Petrescu is mostly remembered for his children's book Fram, ursul polar ("Fram, the polar bear"—the circus animal character was named after Fram, the ship used by Fridtjof Nansen on his expeditions). He died in Bucharest in 1961, and is buried in the city's Bellu Cemetery.
Fram, by Tony Harrison; Fram (Middle-earth), fictional character from the stories of J. R. R. Tolkien; Fram, the Polar Bear, children's book by Romanian writer Cezar Petrescu; Fram Museum, a museum in Oslo, Norway
The Adventures of Fram, the Polar Bear (Romanian: Aventurile lui Fram, ursul polar), a children's book written by the Romanian author Cezar Petrescu which was also made into a TV series in Romania; Fram2, a planned 2024 SpaceX mission on the Crew Dragon spacecraft, and the first crewed spaceflight to pass over the Earth's poles. [9]
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.
By 1901 Nansen's family had expanded considerably. A daughter, Liv, had been born just before Fram set out; a son, Kåre was born in 1897 followed by a daughter, Irmelin, in 1900 and a second son Odd in 1901. [100] The family home, which Nansen had built in 1891 from the profits of his Greenland expedition book, [101] was now too small.
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The first ever expedition to reach the Geographic South Pole was led by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen.He and four other crew members made it to the geographical south pole on 14 December 1911, [n 1] which would prove to be five weeks ahead of the competitive British party led by Robert Falcon Scott as part of the Terra Nova Expedition.
Concluding his book New Land: Four Years in the Arctic, Sverdrup proudly wrote: About one hundred and fifty thousand square miles of new land were surveyed and taken into the possession of the king of Norway. [109] [110] [Note 9] [111] Sverdrup's team surveyed an area of 260,000 km 2 (100,000 sq mi), more than any previous expedition.