page_title: Fram
section_title: Expeditions
hierarchical_section_title: Fram / Expeditions
caption_attribution_description: English: Prow of the ship Fram, now in the Fram Museum, Oslo, Norway
context_page_description: Fram is a ship that was used in expeditions of the Arctic and Antarctic regions by the Norwegian explorers Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Sverdrup, Oscar Wisting, and Roald Amundsen between 1893 and 1912. It was designed and built by the Scottish-Norwegian shipwright Colin Archer for Fridtjof Nansen's 1893 Arctic expedition in which the plan was to freeze Fram into the Arctic ice sheet and float with it over the North Pole.
  Fram is said to have sailed farther north and farther south than any other wooden ship. Fram is preserved at the Fram Museum in Oslo, Norway.
context_section_description: Fram was used in several expeditions:
caption: The prow of Fram, as seen in the Fram Museum in 2010.
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