Today the Fram is located in Oslo, Norway in the Fram Museum. It's fame came from the expeditions that it made possible, of which there where three. Made for Fridtjof Nansen's expedition to the north pole the boat was specially made to freeze in the ice flows in order to travel slowly across the north pole protected in the ice that normally destroys exploration ships.
North Pole Expedition
During Nansen`s expedition the boat traveled along the north of Europe and Russia(Shown in red here) stopping for supplies
and to pickup dogs for crossing the ice. Once reaching a point in the Laptev Sea, on october 9th 1893, the propeller was dissembled and the Fram was frozen in ice at 78°49'N, 132°53'E .
Frozen in the ice the Fram moved with it fallowing the trans polar currents in an erratic path past the north pole (as indicated by the blue).
The typical thickness of arctic sea ice is about 2 to 3 meters due to its relative lack of movement to antarctic ice. No sustainable food or shelter can be made on the ice and frigid temperatures are contended with each day (-43 to -26 degrees Celsius in winter and around -34 in summer). The sea depth is on average 1038m.
This frozen ice sheet became home to the ship and provided room other then the hull of the ship it's self. The dogs where kept in kennels on the ice freeing precious room with in the ship but, fighting amongst them and the loss of dogs to polar bears made the crew bring them back on boar. The ship had become an arctic station for scientific observation rather then a transport. Measurement of sea depth and information from the drift of the ship was extremely valuable to the study of oceanography, especially in the nearly unreachable polar region. Meteorological and magnetic gauges and instruments were set up on the ice. Skiing was made mandatory for each crew member to practice for a few hours.The ice cut off all possible outside help but did provide a way of escape however risky it might be.
On October 25 the arctic night started, requiring the use of the lamps and generator that where brought to deal with the continuous darkness.
The spring brought on thawing of the ice sheet leaving the Fram frozen but making movement hazardous and calling for the use of the kayaks that where brought along.
On 14 March, 1895 Nansen left the ship to make his way to the pole by sled, leaving the ship with instructions to drift as far as they could till they ran out of supplies or the ice released them. On the 13th of June 1896 the ship left the ice and returned to Norway days after Nansen
Amundsen`s Antarctic expedition
The Fram left Norway in 1910, and on October he told the world of the change of plans they would go to the south pole.
January 14, 1911 the Fram reached The Bay of whales where Amundsen established his base camp Framheim, `The home of the Fram.`The station consisted of a small prefabricated cabin and a network of workshops and storage rooms, including a steam-bath room, carved out of the ice surrounding the main hut. An important factor to consider is the transportation and problems in the construction and how these problems are solved in the case of the Fram by the brute prefabrication of shelter. Unlike the northern expedition the Fram did not remain to be the shelter for the explorers. Depots for supplies where to provide storage.
Antarctic coastal temperatures range from −28°C (−18.4°F) in August to −3°C (26.6°F) in January. Snow fall of about 200mm per year is the average in the coastal part of the Ross ice shelf shelf.
The Fram returned home to Norway in 1912 and was left in storage damaging it till in the 1920s when efforts where made to preserve it and in 1935 was installed in the Fram museum
and to pickup dogs for crossing the ice. Once reaching a point in the Laptev Sea, on october 9th 1893, the propeller was dissembled and the Fram was frozen in ice at 78°49'N, 132°53'E .
Frozen in the ice the Fram moved with it fallowing the trans polar currents in an erratic path past the north pole (as indicated by the blue).
The typical thickness of arctic sea ice is about 2 to 3 meters due to its relative lack of movement to antarctic ice. No sustainable food or shelter can be made on the ice and frigid temperatures are contended with each day (-43 to -26 degrees Celsius in winter and around -34 in summer). The sea depth is on average 1038m.
This frozen ice sheet became home to the ship and provided room other then the hull of the ship it's self. The dogs where kept in kennels on the ice freeing precious room with in the ship but, fighting amongst them and the loss of dogs to polar bears made the crew bring them back on boar. The ship had become an arctic station for scientific observation rather then a transport. Measurement of sea depth and information from the drift of the ship was extremely valuable to the study of oceanography, especially in the nearly unreachable polar region. Meteorological and magnetic gauges and instruments were set up on the ice. Skiing was made mandatory for each crew member to practice for a few hours.The ice cut off all possible outside help but did provide a way of escape however risky it might be.
On October 25 the arctic night started, requiring the use of the lamps and generator that where brought to deal with the continuous darkness.
The spring brought on thawing of the ice sheet leaving the Fram frozen but making movement hazardous and calling for the use of the kayaks that where brought along.
On 14 March, 1895 Nansen left the ship to make his way to the pole by sled, leaving the ship with instructions to drift as far as they could till they ran out of supplies or the ice released them. On the 13th of June 1896 the ship left the ice and returned to Norway days after Nansen
Amundsen`s Antarctic expedition
The Fram left Norway in 1910, and on October he told the world of the change of plans they would go to the south pole.
January 14, 1911 the Fram reached The Bay of whales where Amundsen established his base camp Framheim, `The home of the Fram.`The station consisted of a small prefabricated cabin and a network of workshops and storage rooms, including a steam-bath room, carved out of the ice surrounding the main hut. An important factor to consider is the transportation and problems in the construction and how these problems are solved in the case of the Fram by the brute prefabrication of shelter. Unlike the northern expedition the Fram did not remain to be the shelter for the explorers. Depots for supplies where to provide storage.
Antarctic coastal temperatures range from −28°C (−18.4°F) in August to −3°C (26.6°F) in January. Snow fall of about 200mm per year is the average in the coastal part of the Ross ice shelf shelf.
The Fram returned home to Norway in 1912 and was left in storage damaging it till in the 1920s when efforts where made to preserve it and in 1935 was installed in the Fram museum
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