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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 ...
Finally, in 1935, the restored Fram was brought to Oslo under the charge of Oscar Wisting, and placed in specially-erected housing. King Haakon formally opened the Fram House on 20 May 1936, where Fram remains. [40] Terra Nova UK: 744 [41] British Antarctic Expedition 1910 (Terra Nova Expedition) 1910–1913 Robert Falcon Scott
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 Museum is in an area with several other museums including the Kon-Tiki Museum, the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History, the Viking Ship Museum and the Norwegian Maritime Museum.
For the first time in the Detroit Historical Museum's nearly 100-year history, a father and a son are being featured in two separate but adjacent exhibits.
The Fram's seaworthiness also left much to be desired: the hull, designed for ice pressure, was wobbly, the ship was capricious in steering, turning too quickly to the wind under sail, and also had a low speed. In July 1897, the Fram was towed to Colin Archer's shipyard in Larvik. All changes in the ship's design were justified by the ...
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In later years Oscar Wisting was an active force behind the preparations and building of the Fram Museum in Oslo, a museum built to store and display the polar ship Fram. On 5 December 1936 Wisting was found dead from heart attack in his old bunk on board the Fram, a few days before the 25th anniversary of the successful South Pole expedition. [6]
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