FRAM - THE POLAR EXPLORATION MUSEUM

(saken oppdateres) «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 by expedition…

Ernest Shackletons siste ekspedisjonsfartøy – den norske selfangstskuta Quest – som sank i Labradorhavet i mai 1962 med mer enn 4.000 selskinn ombord ble funnet i juni 2024 under en internasjonal ekspedisjon, der Frammuseet deltok og var sentrale i forarbeidet med lokaliseringen og omstendighetene rundt skutas synking.  Akkurat nå ligger forskningsfartøyet Atlantis over vraket av…

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…