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    outside the Fram Museum in Oslo, where she is now situated inside her own building at the museum. Amundsen next planned to take an expedition to the North...
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    Antarctic Expedition in the Fram at Internet Archive and Google Books (scanned books original editions color illustrated) Roald Amundsens dagbok fra...
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  • Thumbnail for Nansen's Fram expedition
    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...
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    Fram ("Forward") is a ship that was used in expeditions of the Arctic and Antarctic regions by the Norwegian explorers Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Sverdrup...
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    Hjalmar Johansen (category Amundsen's South Pole expedition)
    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...
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  • Thumbnail for Franklin's lost expedition
    Franklin's lost expedition was a failed British voyage of Arctic exploration led by Captain Sir John Franklin that departed England in 1845 aboard two...
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    January 1912, both Roald Amundsen (leading his South Pole expedition) and Robert Falcon Scott (leading the Terra Nova Expedition) reached the South Pole...
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    1848–1854 by ships looking for Franklin's lost expedition. The first crossing was made by Roald Amundsen in 1903–1906. He used a small ship and hugged...
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    The Terra Nova Expedition, officially the British Antarctic Expedition, was an expedition to Antarctica which took place between 1910 and 1913. Led by...
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    Olav Bjaaland (category Amundsen's South Pole expedition)
    Commons has media related to Olav Bjaaland. 50th Anniversary of Amundsens Expedition Bjaaland lights Torch 1952 Olympics Games Holmenkollen medalists –...
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    Oscar Wisting (category Amundsen's South Pole expedition)
    Retrieved May 1, 2017. Hansen, Jan Ingar (2001) Oscar Wisting: Amundsens betrodde mann (Schibsted Forlag) ISBN 978-82-516-1867-0 Fram Museum official site...
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    Antarctic destination only when Fram was leaving their last port of call, Madeira. Amundsen's South Pole expedition, with Amundsen and four others, arrived at...
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  • Thumbnail for Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station
    The Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station is a United States scientific research station at the South Pole of the Earth. It is the southernmost point under...
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    1897–99. Oslo, Norway: The Fram Museum. ISBN 9788282350075. R. K. Headland (1989). Chronological List of Antarctic Expeditions and Related Historical Events...
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  • Thumbnail for Ross expedition
    The Ross expedition was a voyage of scientific exploration of the Antarctic in 1839 to 1843, led by James Clark Ross, with two unusually strong warships...
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    Third US Greenland expedition led by Peary 1893–1896: Nansen's Fram expedition by Fridtjof Nansen and Hjalmar Johansen on the Fram and over ice towards...
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    Helmer Hanssen (category Amundsen's South Pole expedition)
    and polar explorer. He participated in three of the polar expeditions led by Roald Amundsen and was one of the first five explorers to reach the South...
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    Polheim (category Amundsen's South Pole expedition)
    Norwegian and Fram's flag were planted. Due to the historical disputes over the claims of polar explorers prior to Amundsen's expedition, particularly...
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    Sverre Hassel (category Amundsen's South Pole expedition)
    1 June 2017. Mills. Roald Amundsen (1912). "The South Pole : an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910–1912". London: John...
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    fame after reaching a record northern latitude of 86°14′ during his Fram expedition of 1893–1896. Although he retired from exploration after his return...
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    flight". Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. January 30, 2021. "Milestones:Long-Range Shortwave Voice Transmissions from Byrd's Antarctic Expedition, 1934"...
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    to Antarctica with his second expedition, the Terra Nova Expedition, initially unaware of Amundsen's secretive expedition. Scott and four other men reached...
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    Andreas Beck (explorer) (category Amundsen's South Pole expedition)
    boarded the polar schooner Fram as an ice captain for Roald Amundsen's planned North Pole expedition. Few people knew that Amundsen had already planned a "detour"...
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    Kristian Prestrud (category Amundsen's South Pole expedition)
    participated in Amundsen's South Pole expedition between 1910 and 1912. Prestrud was first officer of the Fram and leader of the Norwegian expedition's Eastern...
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    The Nimrod Expedition of 1907–1909, otherwise known as the British Antarctic Expedition, was the first of three expeditions to the Antarctic led by Ernest...
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    Shackleton, the expedition was an attempt to make the first land crossing of the Antarctic continent. After Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition in 1911, this...
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    Framheim (category Amundsen's South Pole expedition)
    Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the "Fram," 1910–1912. (London: John Murray. 1912) Huntford, Roland (1979) Scott and Amundsen (Hodder & Stoughton Ltd)...
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  • Thumbnail for List of Antarctic expeditions
    ISBN 1-55652-480-3 Fram.museum.no, map of Antarctic Expeditions 1772 – 1931 at The Fram Museum (Frammuseet) SPRI.cam.ac.uk, index to Antarctic Expeditions at the...
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    display. Amundsen knew that because of the fame that his exploits aboard Gjøa had earned, he would be able to gain access to Nansen's ship Fram which had...
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    The Discovery Expedition of 1901–1904, known officially as the British National Antarctic Expedition, was the first official British exploration of the...
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