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The Fram, frozen into the ice, March 1895. (Peter Lourie)
Nansen’s planned North Pole expedition.  To drift over the Pole locked in ice and to return via Svalbard to Oslo.  Things didn’t go as planned. (Peter Lourie)
April 30, 1894, 3500 meters of rope used to gauge the depth of the Arctic Sea, first such measurement ever taken and much deeper than Nansen had imagined. (Peter Lourie)
The ship’s doctor, Dr. Blessing, on his way to collect algae samples, summer 1894. (Peter Lourie)
Fridtjof Nansen measures water temperatures from the depths of the Arctic Ocean, 12 July 1894.  Nansen’s historical measurements are critical to today’s researchers, including those aboard the Louis, who are trying to understand how ocean currents and temperatures have changed over time – and will change even more perhaps due to global warming. (Peter Lourie)
Nansen’s observations from the Arctic provide some of the earliest data points for researchers now studying the rapid changes in polar regions.  Here the crew makes observations during a solar eclipse, 6 April 1894. (Peter Lourie)
Nansen and Hjalmar Johansen set off for the Pole with 28 dogs and two kayaks, pulling their sleds over the uneven ice.  Their 15-month trek is an amazing story of grit and survival. (Peter Lourie)

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