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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 ...
Sverdrup's Fram expedition (1898–1902) took place in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (Second Fram Voyage or Second Fram Expedition; Norwegian: Den andre Framekspedisjonen) under Otto Sverdrup. The expedition ship Fram was modernized to increase cargo capacity and to accommodate a crew of 16.
The map depicts Asia, Africa and Europe, with South at the top. The Fra Mauro map is a map of the world made around 1450 by the Italian cartographer Fra Mauro, which is “considered the greatest memorial of medieval cartography." [1] It is a circular planisphere drawn on parchment and set in a wooden frame that measures over two by two meters ...
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.
1893–96 – Fridtjof Nansen and Hjalmar Johansen sledge to 86°13'06" N; their ship, the Fram, under Otto Sverdrup, drifts in the ice from the New Siberian Islands west to the northwest coast of Spitsbergen, reaching 85°55'05" N—a new record for a ship.
Map of western Europe, anonymous and undated, preserved in the Ambrosiana Library, dating from the 14th [21] or 15th centuries. In addition there is a detailed description of a nautical Arab map of the Mediterranean in the Encyclopedia of the Egyptian Ibn Fadl Allah al-'Umari , written between 1330 and 1348. [ 19 ]
MS Fram is a passenger vessel operated by the Norway-based Hurtigruten Group. The ship is named after the original Fram , the ship used by explorers Fridtjof Nansen and Roald Amundsen . The ship operates in the Arctic Ocean and around Greenland in the summer, and cruises around Antarctica at other times of the year.
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 ...