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Which explorers had a ship called "Fram" ("Forward")?

Question #151542. Asked by psnz.
Last updated Aug 06 2024.
Originally posted Aug 06 2024 8:03 PM.

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The Norwegian explorers Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Sverdrup, Oscar Wisting, and Roald Amundsen used the ship Fram to explore both the Arctic and Antarctic between 1893 and 1912. The ship was designed with the hopes of it being able to get as close to the North Pole as possible. Amundsen used the Fram to land on Antarctica for his historic trip to find the South Pole in 1911.
Nansen's ambition was to explore the Arctic farther north than anyone elseā€”to the North Pole, if possible. 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.

link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fram_(ship)

Response last updated by BigTriviaDawg on Aug 06 2024.
Aug 06 2024, 8:07 PM
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