Ship - 'Fram' Amundsen's veteran polar exploration 70s

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• Picture / Image:  Amundsens 'Fram'. Farthest north, farhest south. Veteran of polar exploration
• Publisher:  Mittel, printed in Norway
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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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, Oscar Wisting, and Roald Amundsen between 1893 and 1912. It was designed by the Scots-Norwegian shipwright Colin Archer for Fridtjof Nansen's 1893 Arctic expedition in which Fram was supposed to freeze into the Arctic ice sheet and float with it over the North Pole.

Fram is said to be the wooden ship to have sailed farthest north (85°57'N) and farthest south (78°41'S). Fram is currently preserved at the Fram Museum in Oslo, Norway.

Nansen's ambition was to explore the Arctic farther north than anyone else. To do that, he would have to deal with a problem that many sailing on the polar ocean had encountered before him: the freezing ice could crush a ship. Nansen's idea was to build a ship that could survive the pressure, not by pure strength, but because it would be of a shape designed to let the ice push the ship up, so it would "float" on top of the ice.

Nansen commissioned the shipwright Colin Archer from Larvik to construct a vessel with these characteristics. Fram was built with an outer layer of greenheart wood to withstand the ice and almost without a keel to handle the shallow waters Nansen expected to encounter. The rudder and propeller were designed to be retracted into the ship. The ship was also carefully insulated to allow the crew to live onboard for up to five years. The ship also included a windmill, which ran a generator to provide electric power for lighting by electric arc lamps.

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The ship was left to decay in storage between 1912 and the late 1920s, when Lars Christensen, Otto Sverdrup and Oscar Wisting initiated efforts to preserve her. In 1935 the ship was installed in the Fram Museum where she now stands.

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, centred on the original exploration vessel Fram.

The museum was inaugurated on 20 May 1936, and honours Norwegian (rather than international) polar exploration and the three great Norwegian polar explorers - Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Sverdrup and Roald Amundsen. The original interior of Fram is intact, and visitors can go inside the ship to view it. The museum also exhibits images of the fauna of the polar regions, such as polar bears and penguins.