Second lieutenant Sigurd Scott Hansen, who was responsible for the meteorological, astronomical and magnetic observations on the expedition, turned out to be a good photographer. Here he is seen in front of the large camera. One of the pictures from the expedition with arctic ship toward the North Pole in the period June 24, 1893 to August 13, 1896. According to the plan, the ship was to drift in the ice with the ocean current from the coast of Siberia across the North Pole to Greenland.