The crew in a May 17th parade with flags and banners (May 17th is Norway's national holiday). The dogs have been decorated with rosettes. 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.