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Ice Ship: The Epic Voyages of the Polar Adventurer Fram

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by Charles W. Johnson


  fulmar, 60, 70, 100, 112

  Gerlache, Adrien de, 208, 210

  Gjertsen, Hjalmar, 219, 220, 221, 222, 239, 240–42, 247, 262

  Gjøa, 209, 211–14, 215, 218, 243, 275, 294, 297

  Gjøa Haven (Gjøahavn), 212

  Gjøa Museum, 214, 292

  glacier, 8, 104, 136, 186, 191, 249. See also Beardmore Glacier Godhavn (Qeqertarsuaq), 136, 201

  Godthaab, 6, 135, 136

  Good Friday Bay, 174, 175

  Goose Fjord (Gaasefjord): discovery, 168; fourth winter, 198; overland route to, 175, 177, 178; sledge trips, 186, 194; third winter, 183; winter harbors, 128, 129, 183, 184, 195, 200

  Graham Island, 182, 186, 187, 189

  Great Ice Barrier (Ross Ice Shelf): described, 8, 255; Fram at, 226, 229, 232, 233, 235, 241, 255; Scott South Pole trip, 260; South Pole trip, 249, 250; Terra Nova at, 229, 232, 233, 255

  Great War (World War I), 269, 277, 283, 288, 290

  Greely, Adolphus, 12, 124, 142, 144–46, 150

  Greely Fjord, 128, 172, 186, 191, 194, 198

  Greenland: Gjøa expedition, 211; Hall expedition, 138; ice sheet, 8, 231; Jeannette remains, 1, 4, 12, 296; and Nansen, 5, 7, 10, 33, 40, 41, 73; Nares expedition, 141; Peary expedition, 150, 152, 158; Second Expedition, 28, 29, 134–36, 138, 153, 198, 201; Sverdrup’s plan, 129, 148, 152, 155, 158–59, 179

  guillemot, black, 70, 165

  gull: glaucous, 193; ivory, 112; Ross’s (Arctic rose), 70, 104

  gyre, 49, 50, 53

  Hall, Charles Francis, 17, 138, 146

  Hammerfest, 95, 118

  Hansen, Ludvig, 219, 220, 240, 262

  Hanssen, Helmer: on Gjøa, 218; on Maud, 273–74; South Pole party, 243, 244–45, 246, 250, 259; Third Expedition, 219, 262

  Harbor Fjord, 128, 129, 162–63, 164, 171, 184–85, 231

  hare, Arctic, 137, 145, 149, 163, 165, 184–85, 231

  Hassel, Sverre: death, 280; at Johansen’s funeral, 265; Second Expedition, 132, 168; sledging, 164, 173–74, 178, 179, 184, 190, 198–99; South Pole party, 243–46, 250, 251, 259; Third Expedition, 218, 219, 222, 260, 262; visits Peary, 152

  Hayes Sound (Fjord), 148, 149, 150, 157

  Heiberg, Axel, 13, 129

  Heimdal, 202

  Helland-Hansen, Bjørn, 221, 263

  Hell Gate, 128, 169–71, 173, 175, 180, 183, 199

  Hendriksen, Peder: bear attack, 62–63; First Expedition, 36, 37, 58, 61, 67, 71, 80–81, 83, 121–22; illness, 162, 166; injured, 201; Second Expedition, 130, 132, 137, 151, 168; sledging, 173, 177, 190–91, 199, 200

  Heyerdahl, Thor, 13, 297

  Hobart, 206, 258, 259, 260, 261

  Høyer, Liv Nansen, 124. See also Nansen, Liv Huntford, Roland, 18, 34, 35, 221

  hurricane, 236, 237

  ice: -blink, 48, 134; cap, 8; drift, 8, 28, 147; for drinking water, 9; fast, 8; floe, 8; foot, 8; land, 8; lead in, 9; old, 8, 9, 174; pack, 8, 9, 28, 44; rotten, 9; sea, 8; sheet, 8; shelf, 8; young, 8. See also pressure ridge iceberg, 8, 136, 172, 186, 235

  Iceland, 4, 7, 28

  igloo, 9

  Indian Ocean, 18, 225, 226

  Inuit: Arctic life, 6–7, 16, 124, 135, 231, 298; Axel Heiberg Island, 192; diet, 59, 60; Greenland, 1, 136, 140, 152, 153, 201; Second Expedition, 152–53; travel, 146

  Isachsen, Gunerius “Gunnar”: at Fram Museum dedication, 293; Second Expedition, 132, 133, 137, 168, 187, 199; sledging, 162, 173, 174, 178–79, 194; surveying/mapping, 128, 129, 164, 198

  Italia, 276, 279–80, 289

  Jackson, Frederick, 93, 110, 115, 116–17, 208

  Jacobsen, Theodor, 35, 63, 81, 82, 122

  Jeannette: drift, 6, 7, 12, 17; failed expedition, 3–4; Fram route, 10, 18, 29, 173; lost, 3, 50; Maud expedition, 275; relics, 1, 6, 7, 135, 296; renamed, 142

  Johansen, Hjalmar: on Fram, 56, 62, 64, 65, 68, 85, 122; at Framheim, 244–45; leaves Fram, 260, 262; problems, 37, 67, 112, 122, 260, 262–63; qualities, 37, 218; relationship with Amundsen, 244–46, 260; relationship with Nansen, 79, 111, 123, 262, 265; return to Norway, 95, 118–19, 262; sledge/kayak trip, 28, 72, 79 (see also Nansen/Johansen sledge/kayak trip); suicide, 265, 283; Third Expedition, 218, 219, 244; as writer, 112. See also First Expedition, Third Expedition Jones Sound, 128, 161–62, 167, 169–70, 179–80, 183, 194, 198–200

  Joy, Alexander, 287

  Juell, Adolf, 39, 55, 58, 65, 67, 73, 84, 122

  Julianehaab (Qaqortoq), 1, 4

  Kaifas (dog), 103, 104

  Kainan Maru, 248

  Kane Basin, 128, 138–39, 143, 147, 150, 155, 158–59, 179

  Kara Sea, 28, 44, 45–46, 289–90

  Kennedy Channel, 138

  Khabarova, 45

  King Edward VII Land, 206, 232, 241, 245, 247, 255

  King Haakon VII, 250, 257, 273, 293. See also King of Norway King Haakon VII Plateau, 250

  King Halfdan, 95

  King of Norway, 13, 121, 211, 218, 235, 250, 263

  King William Island, 2, 212

  kittiwake, 70, 115. See also gull

  Kobalenko, Jerry, 34, 163, 177

  Kolotengva, 152–53

  Kon-Tiki, 13, 297

  Kristensen, Halvardus, 219, 220, 262

  Kristiansen, Kristian, 39, 40, 41

  Kutschin, Alexander, 219, 220, 239

  Lady Ann Strait, 161

  Lady Franklin Bay, 141, 143

  Lancaster Sound, 211

  Land’s End (Hell Gate), 171, 175

  Land’s End (Lands Lokk), 128, 198

  Laptev Sea, 28, 29, 47

  Larvik, 13, 15, 25, 31, 34, 130, 291, 202

  League of Nations, 283, 285

  lemming, 231

  Lena River, 3, 47, 50

  Lifeboat Cove, 140

  Lincoln Sea, 138, 155

  Lindstrøm, Adolf Henrik: as cook, 135, 148, 211, 243; on Fram, 132, 168, 195, 219, 226; at Framheim, 241, 243, 246, 247; at Fram Museum dedication, 293; on Gjøa, 211; qualities, 133, 164, 178, 226, 243, 245; Second Expedition, 132, 133, 168, 170; at Sverdrup’s funeral, 291; Third Expedition, 218, 243, 262

  Littleton Island, 138, 139, 140, 142, 144, 145

  Lyttelton, 225, 226, 228, 258

  Lytzen, Carl, 1, 4

  Madeira, 206, 218, 222–23, 225, 236, 237

  Mary, 198

  Maud, 273, 277, 279, 283, 291

  Maud expedition, 273–75, 277

  Mawson, Douglas, 226, 248, 296

  McMurdo Sound, 229, 232, 265

  Melville Bay, 136, 140, 152

  Melville, George, 3, 145

  Mogstad, Ivar: bear attack, 62–63; duties, 38, 55, 73, 76, 80, 86; on Fram, 38, 58, 61, 111, 122; qualities, 38, 84; return to Norway, 95, 122

  Mohn, Henrik, 4, 6, 118

  Montevideo, 261, 269

  musk ox: in Arctic, 149, 231; as food/clothing, 59, 145, 149, 155, 172, 187; hunting, 115, 147–48, 156, 165, 183, 193, 197

  Musk-ox Fjord, 165

  Nansen, Alexander, 33, 263, 291

  Nansen, Åsmund, 265, 282, 283

  Nansen bottle, 55

  Nansen, Eigil, 293

  Nansen, Eva: christens Fram, 25; death, 282; during First Expedition, 30, 95, 116, 118; marriage, 30, 67, 96, 123, 215–16, 261; reunion with Fridtjof, 95–96, 118, 123; Third Expedition, 216

  Nansen, Fridtjof: adopts Inuit ways, 6, 59; and Amundsen, 215–17, 218, 239, 266; Arctic crossing plan, 7, 10, 18; as artist, 63; at Bergen’s Museum, 4, 5; children, 282; conceives of Fram, 7, 18; death, 291; depression, 50, 53, 215, 282; disapproves of crew’s behavior, 41, 42; expedition commander, 30; finances Fram, 13; on Fram, 39, 65, 122; Greenland crossing, 5–6; helps Blessing, 123; injured, 103; Johansen’s funeral, 265; marriage (see Nansen, Eva); moodiness, 66, 71, 79, 100–1, 111, 123; Nobel Prize, 4, 284, 285; plan opposed, 10–12; qualities, 50, 53, 73, 98, 123, 285; relationship with Johansen, 111, 123, 218, 263; return to Norway, 95, 117–18; reunion with Fram, 95, 96, 118; as scientist, 4–5, 53, 55, 68, 283–84; seeks North Pole, 66, 69, 105 (see also Nansen/Johanse
n sledge/kayak trip); seeks South Pole, 215–16, 266; as statesman, 215, 281, 283–85, 284; as writer, 50, 123, 215 (see also Farthest North); youth, 4

  Nansen, Irmelin, 282

  Nansen/Johansen sledge/kayak trip: adapts sledges, 104; bear attack, 103; departs Fram, 78, 79–81; in Franz Josef Land, 107–17; journey, 72, 97–108; kills last dogs, 103; meets Jackson, 115, 116; plan, 113; returns to Norway, 117–19; route, 28, 29; weight gain, 117; winter hut, 109–12, 110

  Nansen, Kåre, 282

  Nansen, Liv, 29, 30, 123, 282, 285

  Nansen, Odd, 282

  Nansen Sound, 128, 191

  Nares expedition (British Arctic Expedition), 74, 140–42, 198

  Nares, George, 11, 140, 146, 167, 253

  Nares Strait, 11, 179

  narwhal, 86, 99

  National Day, 84, 90, 99

  New Land, 129, 148, 157

  New Siberian Islands, 3, 28, 47, 48, 50, 275

  Nilsen, Thorvald: to Antarctica, 228, 235–36, 240, 248; Antarctica to Buenos Aires, 235, 236, 237; in Buenos Aires, 218, 237–38, 261, 267, 293; as captain, 219, 220, 222; death, 293; at Johansen’s funeral, 265; oceanographic trip, 239

  Nobel Prize, 4, 119, 284, 285

  Nobile, Umberto, 279–80, 289

  Nødtvedt, Jacob, 131–32, 151, 162, 164, 168, 170, 218–19, 239

  Nordahl, Bernhard: duties, 38, 55, 57, 74, 88; on Fram, 38, 49, 58, 62, 81, 122; qualities, 67, 84

  Nordenskiöld, Adolf Erik, 2, 3, 5, 18, 29, 45, 46

  Nordstrand, 186, 187, 189, 190

  Norge, 279, 280

  Northbrook Island, 93, 108, 115, 116

  North Cornwall Island, 172, 189

  North Devon Island, 28, 161, 180, 198, 199, 211

  Northeast Passage, 5, 18, 42, 46, 269, 273, 274

  Northwest Passage, 2–3, 11, 180, 207, 209, 211–13, 215, 297

  Norwegian Sea, 28, 29, 80, 128, 183

  Novaya Zemlya, 28, 44, 118

  Oates, Lawrence “Titus,” 252, 255

  Olsen, Karenius, 219, 220, 240, 262

  Olsen, Karl, 131, 132, 164, 168, 170, 186–87, 201, 291

  Omdal, Oskar, 277, 278, 279

  Örnen, 92, 93, 94

  Oslo, 4, 213, 278, 280, 290, 291, 292, 294. See also Christiania Oslofjord, 119, 269

  Otaria, 95, 96, 118

  Panama, 268

  Panama Canal, 267–68

  Pandora, 11–12, 140, 142

  Peary, Robert, 136, 149, 150, 152–53, 158–59, 210, 217, 267

  permafrost, 231

  Pettersen, Lars: death, 125; duties, 39, 54, 55, 83, 86, 87; on Fram, 49, 58, 65, 122; qualities, 36, 68

  Pim Island, 128, 138–39, 142, 143–44, 147, 158–59

  polar day, 106–7

  polar fever, 1, 4, 15

  Polaris, 138–41, 146

  polar season, 106–7

  Polheim (Polar Home), 249, 250, 252

  Polhøgda (Polar Heights), 281, 282

  pressure ridge: defined, 8, 54, 70; First Expedition, 54, 75–76, 82, 85, 91: Second Expedition, 130, 168–69, 175, 193; sledge/kayak trip, 97, 101

  Prestrud, Kristian: 219, 222, 223, 241, 243, 244–45, 247, 262

  primus stove, 191

  Proteus, 143–44

  purpura nautica, see scurvy

  Queen Maud Range, 250. See also Transantarctic Mountains

  Raanes, Oluf: at Beechey Island, 199; on Fram, 132, 168, 195; injury, 166; as mate, 131, 133, 164; at Nordstrand, 186; sledging, 181–82, 183, 190, 191, 194, 198; at Sverdrup’s funeral, 291

  Rae, John, 17

  Reindeer Bay, 175–76

  reindeer (caribou), 23, 24, 45, 46, 137, 185, 289

  Rice Strait, 128, 129, 142, 147, 158

  Riiser-Larsen, Hjalmar, 277, 278–79

  Ringnes, Amund, 13, 129, 194

  Ringnes Brewing Company, 13, 58, 64

  Ringnes, Ellef, 13, 129, 194

  Rønne, Martin, 219, 220, 240, 262, 273–74

  Ross Ice Shelf, see Great Ice Barrier

  Ross Island, 206, 229, 232, 255

  Ross, James Clark, 211

  Ross, John, 198

  Ross Sea, 226, 255

  Rutherford Cape, 148

  Sandefjord, 209, 291

  San Francisco, 3, 213, 258, 263, 264, 268, 269

  Sannikoff Land, 48, 50

  Schei, Per: at Bear Fort, 177; on Fram, 132, 168, 200; frostbite, 152; as geologist, 133, 193; sledging, 157, 164, 167, 173, 190–91, 194, 198

  Schröer, Adolf Hermann, 219, 221

  Scott expedition: base station (Hut), 229; bodies found, 257; deaths, 254–56; difficulties, 228–29, 252–54; fossil collecting, 230, 257; ponies, 228, 229, 252, 253, 256; at South Pole, 250–52; South Pole trip, 228–29, 243, 248–49, 252–54; voyage to Antarctica, 217, 225–26, 230; ways of polar travel, 228–29, 252–54

  Scott-Hansen, Sigurd: on Fram, 64, 65, 80–81, 82, 84, 87, 122; Fram Museum dedication, 293; on Heimdal, 202; scientific work, 34, 38, 53, 57, 68, 88; as second-in-command, 32, 34

  Scott, Robert Falcon, 8, 217, 225–26, 252, 253, 256–57. See also Scott expedition

  scurvy, 59, 61, 94, 141, 144, 187, 210, 254–55

  seal: bearded, 91, 101, 102, 105; bladdernose (hooded), 135; harbor, 135; ringed, 60, 100

  Second Expedition: Braskerud’s death, 163, 164; crew, 131–34, 132, 168; departs Ellesmere, 200; departs Norway, 134; encounters Peary, 150, 153; financing, 129; fire onboard, 171, 172; Inuit visitors, 153; mission, 133; original plan, 129, 155; returns to Norway, 201–3, 202–3; route, 28, 128, 134–35, 137–38, 147, 158–62, 179–83, 201–3; routines, 151, 166, 188, 197; sledging explorations, 155–57, 156, 167, 169–71, 172–77, 186–88, 190–94, 198; Svendsen’s suicide, 157–58; winter harbors, 128, 129, 142, 147, 162–63, 183–84, 196–97

  sector principle, 286–87, 300

  Severnaya Zemlya, 28, 289

  Shackleton, Ernest, 216, 217, 225, 226, 228, 249, 253

  Shetland Islands, 201

  Siberia: First Expedition, 7, 10, 28, 29, 41, 45–46; Jeannette expedition, 3, 29; Maud expedition, 273–75; and Northeast Passage, 2, 18; Sverdrup’s later missions, 289

  Simmons, Herman Georg: as botanist, 133, 161, 195, 199; as doctor, 187; fire on Fram, 171–72; on Fram, 132, 133, 164, 168, 170, 184, 195; illness, 166; sledging, 157, 184

  Simmons Peninsula, 172, 186

  Skjervøy, 94, 95

  Skreia Island, 162, 163, 166

  skua, 70, 112

  Smith, Leigh, 108, 115

  Smith Sound, 142, 150, 158, 161, 179, 250

  snadd, see seal, harbor

  snow blindness, 157

  snowfield, 8

  Søstrene, 92, 95

  South America, 206, 223, 226, 237–38, 267–69

  South Cape, 163

  South Pole, 1, 2, 106–7, 230–31, 255. See also Amundsen expedition; Nansen, Fridtjof; Scott expedition

  South Pole, The, 226, 251, 260

  Spitsbergen, 7, 28, 92, 93, 277, 279. See also Svalbard

  starvation, 59, 94, 99, 140, 144

  Stavanger, 202, 203

  Stolz, Rudolf, 132, 157, 162, 164, 167–68, 173, 198

  St. Paul, 265

  Straits of Magellan, 268

  Stubberud, Jørgen: death, 294; duties, 220, 243; on Fram, 219, 262; at Johansen’s funeral, 265; King Edward VII Land trip, 241, 246; South Pole party, 244–45

  Suggen (dog), 85, 103, 104

  Sundbeck, Knut, 219, 220, 240, 262, 273–74

  Svalbard: Amundsen flight, 278; Andrée expedition, 94; currents, 7; First Expedition, 28; Nansen/Johansen sledge/kayak trip, 72–73, 92–94, 101, 104–5, 112–13; ownership, 287; tourists, 130

  Svendsen, Johan, 132, 134, 151, 157, 164, 168, 269

  Sverdrup, Harald Ulrik, 275

  Sverdrup Island (Russia), 46

  Sverdrup Islands (Canada), 28, 128, 129, 280, 287

  Sverdrup, Otto: adopts Inuit ways, 253; and Alexander Nansen, 33; captain/commander First Expedition, 33–34, 40, 64–65,
67, 76, 80, 125; claims Sverdrup Islands for Norway, 287, 299; commander Second Expedition, 129, 132, 168; death, 287, 291; disagrees with Nansen, 39, 50, 73, 82; after First Expedition, 130; First Expedition return, 122; on Fram, First Expedition, 61, 64, 65; and Fram’s design/construction, 15, 22, 34; Greenland crossing, 15, 33, 34; as hunter, 137, 147, 165, 167, 197; in ice-cave, 176–77; meets Peary, 150; in old age, 288; other duties, 55, 73, 78, 83, 133; on Pim Island, 142, 147, 158; qualities, 33, 67, 73, 78–79, 82, 186, 187, 192; saves Fram, 290–92; search for Nansen/Johansen, 92–93, 95, 130; after Second Expedition, 288–90; Second Expedition return, 202, 288; sledging, 155, 156, 164, 175–76, 186, 190, 197–98; Svendsen’s suicide, 157; as writer, 84, 88, 148, 160, 184, 185, 192–93. See also First Expedition, Second Expedition

  Svyatogor, 289, 290

  Taimyr, 289

  Taimyr Peninsula, 28, 46, 47, 289

  Telemark, 34

  Terra Nova, 225–26, 228–29, 232, 233, 252, 255, 265, 296

  Thank God Harbor (Hall Bay), 138

  Third Expedition

  — King Edward VII Land trip: 245, 246, 247

  — oceanographic trip: 206, 238–39

  — South Pole trip: collects fossils, 257; departure, 246; members, 250, 259; names features, 249; premature departure, 45, 243; return, 248, 254; at South Pole, 249, 250. See also Framheim

  — to/from Antarctica: Antarctica to Buenos Aires, 235–37; Arctic trip plan, 217, 266; Beck dies, 268; crew, 218–19, 220–21, 262; crew returns to Buenos Aires, 267; crew returns to Norway, 261; departs Norway, 218, 221; at Great Ice Barrier, 229, 232–33; in Madeira, 222–23; to Panama, 267–68; routes, 206; in South America, 267–69; voyage from Norway, 221, 226–27, 229

  Titanic, 266

  Toll, Baron Eduard von, 45, 47, 48, 50

  Transantarctic Mountains, 249, 250

  trichinosis, 94

  Tromsø, 31, 38, 40–41, 93–95, 119, 133, 211, 280

  Trondheim, 40, 41, 291

  tundra, 45, 231

  Turn-Back (Vendom) Fjord, 128, 190

  Tyson, George, 139–40, 142

  Upernivik (Upernavik), 136

  Urania, 45

  Vardø, 41, 42, 44, 47, 95, 117

  Vaygach Island, 44

  Vega, 5, 18, 29

  Viking, 4, 5

  Virgo, 92, 93

  Virgo Harbor, 93

  vitamin C, 59

  walrus: attacks, 99, 104, 114; as food, 61, 113, 145, 165, 194; habitat, 110, 137, 149; hunting, 46, 109, 114, 137, 147, 160, 170, 197; use of parts, 109, 125, 197

 

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