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... 60 KB (7,984 words) - 23:47, 26 April 2024 |
Fram ("Forward") is a ship that was used in expeditions of the Arctic and Antarctic regions by the Norwegian explorers Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Sverdrup... 10 KB (1,001 words) - 23:16, 9 April 2024 |
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... 49 KB (5,060 words) - 20:54, 29 April 2024 |
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... 3 KB (365 words) - 05:15, 4 February 2024 |
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... 97 KB (11,888 words) - 18:30, 11 April 2024 |
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... 40 KB (4,647 words) - 10:28, 22 April 2024 |
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... 77 KB (8,417 words) - 00:04, 29 April 2024 |
Northwest Passage (redirect from Amundsen expedition) Sir John Franklin in 1845. While searching for him the McClure Arctic Expedition discovered the Northwest Passage in 1850. In 1906, the Norwegian explorer... 114 KB (12,789 words) - 05:59, 28 April 2024 |
North Pole (section MLAE 2009 Expedition) Johansen struck out for the Pole on skis after leaving Nansen's icebound ship Fram. The pair reached latitude 86°14′ North before they abandoned the attempt... 68 KB (7,669 words) - 08:11, 24 April 2024 |
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... 9 KB (1,072 words) - 16:03, 1 April 2024 |
in the Fram Expedition from 1893 to 1896. The first surface crossing of the ocean was led by Wally Herbert in 1969, in a dog sled expedition from Alaska... 65 KB (6,952 words) - 15:33, 30 April 2024 |
south". Solomon 2001, p. 64, gives a longer version: "Beg leave to inform you Fram proceeding Antarctica"; Fiennes and Huntford both use this form. Scott's... 67 KB (9,126 words) - 17:50, 4 May 2024 |
expedition in 1884, conclusively proved that Eystribyggð could not be found there. In 1921, the Danish government sent an archaeological expedition to... 65 KB (9,215 words) - 01:55, 25 April 2024 |
Edmund Hillary (section 1953 Everest expedition) in an accident. Prior to the Everest expedition, Hillary had been part of the British reconnaissance expedition to the mountain in 1951 as well as an... 73 KB (7,077 words) - 19:05, 24 April 2024 |
The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1917 is considered to be the last major expedition of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Conceived... 64 KB (8,384 words) - 04:55, 6 May 2024 |
Henry Hudson (section Expedition of 1609) and contributed to the development of trade and commerce. On his final expedition, while still searching for the Northwest Passage, Hudson became the first... 29 KB (3,595 words) - 09:56, 28 April 2024 |
Ernest Shackleton (category Antarctic expedition deaths) January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. He was one of the principal figures of the period known... 111 KB (11,760 words) - 12:21, 9 April 2024 |
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... 124 KB (13,767 words) - 18:24, 5 May 2024 |
Oscar Wisting (category Amundsen's South Pole expedition) on board the Fram, a few days before the 25th anniversary of the successful South Pole expedition. For his participation in the expedition, he was awarded... 6 KB (670 words) - 18:44, 21 September 2023 |
Robert Peary (redirect from Peary North Pole expedition) American explorer and officer in the United States Navy who made several expeditions to the Arctic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was long... 64 KB (7,463 words) - 04:42, 23 April 2024 |
USS O-12 (section Nautilus Arctic Expedition) however, considered the expedition a failure and carried out his threat, refusing to pay for the expedition. Following the expedition, O-12 was returned to... 11 KB (1,206 words) - 11:59, 22 April 2024 |
the difficult Arctic ice and weather conditions, and partly because the expedition leaders were given instructions to search for the Eastern Settlement on... 169 KB (16,427 words) - 20:52, 5 May 2024 |
area of the Antarctic continent (publicly denied as a goal before the expedition ended); Determining the feasibility of establishing, maintaining, and... 17 KB (1,787 words) - 04:02, 29 April 2024 |
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... 19 KB (1,990 words) - 01:15, 20 April 2024 |
to Antarctica with his second expedition, the Terra Nova Expedition, initially unaware of Amundsen's secretive expedition. Scott and four other men reached... 33 KB (3,257 words) - 08:46, 5 May 2024 |
Otto Sverdrup (section Career and expeditions) joined Fridtjof Nansen's expedition of 1888 across Greenland. In 1892 he was an advisor to Fridtjof Nansen when the ship Fram was built. In 1893 Sverdrup... 12 KB (1,356 words) - 19:01, 28 April 2023 |