The Polar History

Between 1888 and 1926, Norwegian expeditions set out for the last blank spaces on the map. These are the stories of the people who went, the ships that carried them, and the days that wrote polar history.

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The expeditions

Eight voyages that moved the limits of the possible — told day by day, mile by mile.

8 expeditions

The explorers

The leaders, cooks, captains and scientists — the people behind the feats.

71 explorers

The vessels

Fram, Gjøa and Maud — the ships that carried them through the ice.

3 vessels

The diaries from the ice

The Fram Museum is digitising the expedition members’ original diaries. Soon you can read the accounts day by day — as they were written, where they were written.