More than a century later, scientists are still fascinated by the Fram’s voyage and by Nansen’s visionary strategy for getting the ship through the frozen central Arctic. So they’re giving ...

ABOARD THE FRAM -- Standing at the bow of one of expedition cruising's hardiest ships as it crunches northward through a carpet of ice, Cecilia Donnelly is almost giggly with excitement. And who ...

Named after the ship that explorer Roald Amundsen took to the South Pole in 1910, the 12,700-ton Fram is operated by Norway-based Hurtigruten, a pioneer in Arctic travel, and was specifically ...

Arctic ship connects to ice as pole plunges into long night. ... the central Arctic and release it next October somewhere between Greenland and Svalbard in a region known as the Fram Strait. ...

Editor’s Note: This is the third dispatch from aboard the R.V. Lance, an Arctic research vessel. Read the first and second installments. 83.07 Degrees North — We awoke to a deafening noise ...

The Fram is quite an astonishing ship, you can go and see her in a little museum in ... 1 of 55 glass lantern slides of the Arctic made from negatives taken during Dr. F. Nansen's Expedition ...

Weather forecasts could get a lot more accurate thanks to a daring new experiment that will see a massive research ship completely buried in Arctic ice. The the RV Polarstern will be unable to move… ...

The Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), has operated the ocean-monitoring system FRAM (Frontiers in Arctic Marine Monitoring), designed to assess long ...

Sverdrup during the first Winter lay with his ship not many miles from where Lieut. Peary lay with his, the Windward. A party was dispatched from the Fram to call upon Peary, who was found laid up ...

HX has announced significant refurbishments for two of its most popular smaller ships, MS Fram and MS Spitsbergen.The company is investing more than €7 (approximately $7.2) million for the ...

This photo shows the launch of Fram 'to great festivities' on October 26, 1892, in the shipyard in the Norwegian town of Larvik. Detailing the design of the ship, Klover says: 'Nansen approached ...