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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Fridtjof Nansen's polar exploration ship Fram, and undertook extensive fundraising. Preparations for this expedition were disrupted when, in 1909, the rival...
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Roald Amundsen (redirect from Gjoa Expedition)
1909, Amundsen began planning for a South Pole expedition. He left Norway in June 1910 on the ship Fram and reached Antarctica in January 1911. His party...
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Fridtjof Nansen (redirect from Nansen Expedition)
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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up fram or fram- in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Fram may refer to: Fram (ship), an arctic exploration vessel from Norway MS Fram, expedition cruise...
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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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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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Iceland for three years; many of these men would then join Erik on his expedition to Greenland. Erik's son Leif Erikson became the first Norseman to explore...
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Richard E. Byrd (redirect from Byrd Antarctic Expedition)
polar logistics. Aircraft flights in which he served as a navigator and expedition leader crossed the Atlantic Ocean, a segment of the Arctic Ocean, and...
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