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News
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Amazing underwater photos and film from the Norwegian sealing ship Quest that sank in 1962 – was Shackleton’s last ship
(article to be updated) “An expedition led by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS) has captured the first images of the wreck of Quest on the bottom of the Labrador Sea. Quest was a storied polar exploration ship, best known for her brief interlude as the last expedition ship of famed Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton. The images, captured…
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Generous donation to the Fram Museum
115 years after the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition that took Roald Amundsen and his four companions to the South Pole in 1911, the granddaughter of Ludvig Hansen gave his personal diary from the South Pole Expedition and the gold pocket watch to the Fram Museum. All crew members on the expedition received a specially engraved gold…
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Celebrating 100 Years of the “Norge” Airship Expedition at the Fram Museum!
The Fram Museum invited to a large-scale celebration of the Amundsen – Ellsworth – Nobile Transpolar Expedition 1926 and the airship Norge’s arrival at the North Pole on May 12, 1926. The Fram Museum leader of the board Christine C. Akselsen welcomed the gathering and told them about the Fram Museum’s planned new building, which…
Polar History
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