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Bottle - Fram Expedition in a Bottle
Date Added: 29 December 2017

The Artist, Roger Histel has re-created a scene of Nansen's Fram Expedition to the North Pole in a bottle. In this diorama he shows the three-masted Schooner "Fram" frozen in the ice and the preparations being made for the land trek to the Nort Pole. Nansen's Fram expedition was an 1893 -1896 attempt by the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen to reach the geographical North Pole by harnessing the natural east/west current of the Arctic Ocean. In the face of much discouragement from other polar explorers, Nansen took his ship Fram to the New Siberian Islands in the eastern Arctic Ocean, froze her into the pack ice, and waited for the drift to carry her towards the pole. Impatient with the slow speed and erratic character of the drift, after 18 months Nansen and a chosen companion, Hjalmar Johansen, left the ship with a team of dogs and sledges and made for the pole. They did not reach it, but they achieved a record Farthest North latitude of 86°13.6?N before a long retreat over ice and water to reach safety in Franz Josef Land. Meanwhile, Fram continued to drift westward, finally emerging in the North Atlantic Ocean.
Type: Three-masted Schooner Diorama in a Bottle   Maker's Name: Histel, Roger
Category: Sailing Ships   Made Where: Neunkirchen, Germany
Bottle Size: 3 Liter   Year Made: 1996
Bottle Type: Apothekerflasche  

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