In 1893, Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat, and humanitarian, Fridtjof Nansen, lodged the Fram's (his ship) round-bottomed hull in the Arctic Ocean’s ice, upon which it drifted across the Polar Sea in a journey that took over three years.
One of the Fram’s intrepid explorers anonymously exclaimed, “Like marriage, it was a marvelous adventure we couldn't appreciate until, at its close, we could thank God we had survived the crushing ice, the chilling cold, and the solitary desolation.”
Loren M. Lambert © January 5, 2010
One of the Fram’s intrepid explorers anonymously exclaimed, “Like marriage, it was a marvelous adventure we couldn't appreciate until, at its close, we could thank God we had survived the crushing ice, the chilling cold, and the solitary desolation.”
Loren M. Lambert © January 5, 2010
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